Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24075Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2 dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark.
References
osvdb.org/61178
secunia.com/advisories/37842
secunia.com/advisories/37916
www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1983
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:031
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.securityfocus.com/bid/37407
www.securitytracker.com/id?1023374
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3596
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-05.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-01.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0360
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4301
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9564
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01248.html
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P