20124 : Ethereal ISIS LSP Dissector Memory Exhaustion DoS
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Disclosure

Oct 19, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Keywords

enpa-sa-00021

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw related to the ISIS LSP dissector that may allow a remote attacker to cause the application to consume all available system memory. No further details have been provided.

Classification

Location: Remote/Network Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Rumored / Private
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.13 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Ethereal
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Ethereal
Watch-list
0.9.x
0.8.18
0.8.19
0.10.3
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.10.2
0.10.4
0.10.7
0.10.6
0.10.5
0.10.8
0.10.9
0.10.10
0.10.11
0.10.12

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