6133 : Ethereal SPNEGO Dissector DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-05-14

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered by sending malformed traffic which causes a null pointer dereference in the SPNEGO dissector, and will result in loss of availability for the product.

Classification

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

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. It is also possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): disable SPNEGO protocol dissector

Products

Ethereal	Ethereal	0.10.0
		0.10.1
		0.10.2
		0.10.3
		0.9.10
		0.9.11
		0.9.12
		0.9.13
		0.9.14
		0.9.15
		0.9.16
		0.9.8
		0.9.9

References

Security Tracker: 1010158
Bugtraq ID: 10347
Secunia Advisory ID: 11608 11776
ISS X-Force ID: 16151
CVE ID: 2003-0430 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 6131 6132 6134
Other Advisory URL: http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-01.xml

Tools & Filters

	12373 12645

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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