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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2011.0099
Three vulnerabilities in Wireshark
7 November 2011
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Wireshark
Operating System: Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2011-4100 CVE-2011-4101 CVE-2011-4102
Member content until: Wednesday, December 7 2011
OVERVIEW
Three DoS vulnerabilities have been corrected in Wireshark. [1,2,3]
IMPACT
The vulnerabilities are:
- An uninitialized variable in the CSN.1 dissector could cause a crash. [1]
- A NULL pointer dereference in the Infiniband dissector. [2]
- A buffer overflow in the ERF file reader. [3]
MITIGATION
Wireshark has released versions 1.6.3 and 1.4.10 to correct these
vulnerabilities. [4]
REFERENCES
[1] Wireshark CSN.1 dissector vulnerability
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html
[2] Wireshark Infiniband dissector vulnerability
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html
[3] Wireshark ERF file parser vulnerability
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-19.html
[4] Get Wireshark
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
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