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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29156

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29156/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1228/

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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the SCTP, SNMP, and
TFTP dissectors. These can be exploited to cause the application to
crash or consume large amounts of memory when processing specially
crafted packets that are either captured off the wire or loaded via a
capture file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 0.99.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.99.8.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
SCTP and SNMP dissectors:
Reported by the vendor.

TFTP dissector:
The vendor credits Noam Rathaus.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html

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