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saintSAINT CorporationSAINT:B5E20E3B9EF32958EB2696B6A9976866
HistoryNov 25, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Wireshark Lua Untrusted Search Path vulnerability

2011-11-2500:00:00
SAINT Corporation
www.saintcorporation.com
19

0.974 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.9%

Added: 11/25/2011
CVE: CVE-2011-3360
BID: 49528
OSVDB: 75347

Background

Wireshark is a network packet analyzer.

Problem

A vulnerability in Wireshark allows execution of arbitrary Lua scripts placed in untrusted directories which are included in Wireshark’s search path.

Resolution

Upgrade to Wireshark 1.4.9 or 1.6.2 or higher.

References

<http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-15.html&gt;

Limitations

Exploit works on Wireshark 1.6.0 and requires a user to open the PCAP file on the specified network share.

The smbclient program must be available on the SAINTexploit host.

Platforms

Windows