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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44449

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-04

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

1) An error in the DICOM dissector can be exploited to cause an
infinite loop when processing certain malformed packets.

2) An error when processing a Diameter dictionary file can be
exploited to cause the process to crash.

3) An error when processing a snoop file can be exploited to cause
the process to crash.

4) An error when processing compressed capture data can be exploited
to cause the process to crash.

5) An error when processing a Visual Networks file can be exploited
to cause the process to crash.

6) An error in the "desegment_tcp()" function
(epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c) when handling certain TCP segments can
be exploited to dereference a NULL pointer and crash the process.

This vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.5 only.

The vulnerabilities #1 through #5 are reported in versions 1.2.0
through 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.17 or 1.4.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Reported by the vendor.
6) Reported by rouli in a bug report.

The vendor also credits:
2, 3, 5) Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Red Hat Security Response Team.
4) David Maciejak, Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5837

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