47932 : Wireshark NCP Dissector Unspecified Infinite Loop DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-09-03

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-3932" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted NCP packet that triggers an infinite loop.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.3 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: 1020819
CVE ID: 2008-3932 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 31674 31864 31886 32028 32091 32188
SCIP VulDB ID: 3816 3817
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
Other Advisory URL: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2835
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-09-05 | Disagree?

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