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TITLE:
Wireshark SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32840

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18083/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP dissector and
can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a
large SMTP packet.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.4. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=24989

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Security Vulnerability Research Team of Bkis

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065840.html

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