49345 : Wireshark Q.931 Dissector packet-q931.c dissect_q931_cause_ie Function Use-after-free Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-10-20

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-4685" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Use-after-free vulnerability in the dissect_q931_cause_ie function in packet-q931.c in the Q.931 dissector in Wireshark 0.10.3 through 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or abort) via certain packets that trigger an exception.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.4 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: 1021069
CVE ID: 2008-4685 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 31838
Secunia Advisory ID: 32355 32944 33045 33462 34144 35648
Related OSVDB ID: 49340 49341 49342 49343 49344
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-2872
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00265.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200906-05.xml
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00002.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2870
Other Advisory URL: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-10-23 | Disagree?

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