40454 : Wireshark Firebird/Interbase Dissector Unspecified Infinite Loop Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-11-26

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-6116" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The Firebird/Interbase dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or crash) via unknown vectors.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.99.7 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1018988
OVAL ID: 15036 9799
CVE ID: 2007-6116 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 26532
Secunia Advisory ID: 27777 27817 28197 28207 28288 28304 28315 28325 28564 29048
Related OSVDB ID: 40450 40451 40452 40453 40455 40456 40457 40458 40459 40460 40461 40462 40463 40464 40465 40466 40467 40468
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3956
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00194.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008-January/000296.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1446
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2008:0058

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-11-26 | Disagree?

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