Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Nov 2016) - Windows. Multiple flaws allow remote attackers to conduct denial of service attack by crashing AllJoyn dissector, DCERPC dissector, DTN dissector, and OpenFlow dissector with network traffic or a capture file
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 64 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3719-1] wireshark security update | 21 Nov 201608:59 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DLA 714-1] wireshark security update | 21 Nov 201611:37 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3719-1] wireshark security update | 21 Nov 201608:59 | – | debian |
![]() | Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability | 18 Nov 201602:40 | – | mageia |
![]() | Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Nov 2016) - Mac OS X | 18 Nov 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 3719-1 (wireshark - security update) | 21 Nov 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0391) | 28 Jan 202200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-714-1) | 8 Mar 202300:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3719-1) | 20 Nov 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1) | 9 Jun 202100:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-59.html |
wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html |
wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html |
wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html |
securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.809803");
script_version("2024-07-22T05:05:40+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9374", "CVE-2016-9376", "CVE-2016-9373", "CVE-2016-9375");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-22 05:05:40 +0000 (Mon, 22 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-07-28 01:29:00 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2017)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-11-18 12:48:21 +0530 (Fri, 18 Nov 2016)");
script_name("Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Nov 2016) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws are due to:
- The AllJoyn dissector could crash with a buffer over-read, triggered by
network traffic or a capture file.
- The DCERPC dissector could crash with a use-after-free, triggered by network
traffic or a capture file.
- The DTN dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by network
traffic or a capture file.
- The OpenFlow dissector could crash with memory exhaustion, triggered by network
traffic or a capture file.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
attackers to conduct denial of service attack.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and
2.0.0 to 2.0.7 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.2.2 or
or 2.0.8 later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-59.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/windows/detected");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!wirversion = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if(version_in_range(version:wirversion, test_version:"2.0.0", test_version2:"2.0.7"))
{
fix = "2.0.8";
VULN = TRUE;
}
else if(version_in_range(version:wirversion, test_version:"2.2.0", test_version2:"2.2.1"))
{
fix = "2.2.2";
VULN = TRUE;
}
if(VULN)
{
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:wirversion, fixed_version:fix);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
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