20136 : Ethereal WSP Dissector Invalid Pointer DoS
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90%

Disclosure

Oct 19, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Keywords

enpa-sa-00021

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw related to the WSP dissector that could free an invalid pointer, which may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. 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	Ethereal	0.10.3
		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

References

Security Tracker: 1015082
Bugtraq ID: 15148
Secunia Advisory ID: 17254 17286 17327 17377 17392 17480 17757
CVE ID: 2005-3249 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 20121 20122 20123 20124 20125 20126 20127 20128 20129 20130 20131 20132 20133 20134 20135 20137
Keyword: enpa-sa-00021
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051101-01-U.asc http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Nov/0001.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-227.pdf
Vendor URL: http://www.ethereal.com/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:809

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Nessus	20105 20118 20435

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