Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissectberchoice function in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x through 1.2.15 and 1.4.x through 1.4.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving self-referential ASN.1 CHOICE values.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way that Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.0 through 1.6.2 handled reading ERF files. This could cause wireshark to crash by reading a malformed packet trace file. This is corrected in wireshark 1.6.3.

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=6479 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508

External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-19.html

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A flaw in the Infiniband dissector could cause Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.0 through 1.6.3 to crash by dereferencing a NULL pointer by reading a malformed packet trace file or if someone were to inject a malformed packet onto the wire. This is corrected in wireshark 1.6.3

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=6476 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500

External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The prototreeadditem function in Wireshark 1.6.0 through 1.6.1 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.8, when the IKEv1 protocol dissector is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving a malformed IKE packet and many items in a tree.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

It was found that wireshark could run arbitrary Lua scripts.

Reference: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-15.html

This issue affects the versions of wireshark shipped with Fedora-14, Fedora-15 and the upcoming Fedora-16 and has been fixed via the following security advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12423 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12403 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12399

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An infinite loop was found in the way ANSI A Interface (IS-634/IOS) dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer processed certain ANSI A MAP capture files. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious packet capture file, it could lead to denial of service (Wireshark hang).

Upstream bug: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=6044

Public PoC: [2] http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2011-06-20-22762.pcap

Relevant upstream patch: [3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37930

References: [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/ [5] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-11.html [6] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-10.html

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An integer underflow flaw, leading to heap-based buffer over-read was found in the Wireshark's Visual Networks dissector. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture file, which once opened, by a local, unsuspecting user could lead to wireshark application crash.

References: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=5934 (upstream bug report) [2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6366 (reproducer) [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 (CVE request) [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (upstream advisory)

Upstream patch: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37128

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Double Free
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A double free flaw was found in the way Wireshark uncompressed a zlib compressed packet inside a message of tvbuff buffer. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture file, which once opened, by a local, unsuspecting user could lead to wireshark application crash.

References: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=5908 (upstream bug report, not public) [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 (CVE request) [3] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (upstream advisory)

Upstream patch: [4] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

It was found that Wireshark's DICOM dissector did not check for invalid payload data unit length. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture file, which once opened, by a local, unsuspecting user could lead to wireshark application hang / termination.

References: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=5876 (upstream bug report) [2] http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2011-04-30-7272.pcap (public reproducer) [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 (CVE request) [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (upstream advisory)

Upstream patch: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=36958

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Wireshark processed certain Diameter dictionary files. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted dictionary file, which once used, by a local, unsuspecting user when loading a Diameter capture file could lead to wireshark application crash.

References: [1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 (CVE request) [2] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (upstream advisory)

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A stack-based buffer over-read flaw was found in the way Wireshark performed management of testy, virtualizable buffers. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture file, which once opened, by a local, unsuspecting user could lead to wireshark application crash.

References: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=5912 (upstream bug report) [2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6335 (public reproducer) [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 (CVE request) [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (upstream advisory)

Upstream patch: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37068

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The NFS dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 on Windows uses an incorrect integer data type during decoding of SETCLIENTID calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Stack-based buffer overflow in the DECT dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-dect.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcap file.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Off-by-one error in the dissect6lowpaniphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/dissectors/packet-ldap.c in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via (1) a long LDAP filter string or (2) an LDAP filter string containing many elements.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in the dissectmscompressedstring and dissectmscldapstring functions in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted (1) SMB or (2) Connection-less LDAP (CLDAP) packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/dissectors/packet-ntlmssp.c in the NTLMSSP dissector in Wireshark before 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way Wireshark processes signalling traces generated by Gammu (www.gammu.org) from Nokia DCT3 phones in Netmonitor mode.

An attacker could use this flaw to cause wireshark executable to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running wireshark, if the local user opened a specially-crafted capture file.

The following upstream commit fixes this issue: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=35953

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0538 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-0538 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0538 Assigned: 20110120 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20110204 Wireshark: Freeing uninitialized pointer Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 Reference: MISC:https://srcm.symantec.com/EditVulnerabilityFixes.aspx?docId=549474 Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=5652 Reference: BID:46167 Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167

Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and earlier frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in the MAC-LTE dissector (epan/dissectors/packet-mac-lte.c) in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of RARs.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
Code Injection
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, as demonstrated by a usbmon dump.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.9
Code Injection
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple integer underflows in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop) via vectors related to the R3 dissector, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2392.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
Integer Overflow
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple integer overflows in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to the (1) BACapp and (2) Bluetooth HCI dissectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2392.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/dissectors/packet-diameter.c in the DIAMETER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 does not properly construct certain array data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers incorrect memory allocation.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 on the SPARC and Itanium platforms does not properly perform data alignment for a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a (1) ICMP or (2) ICMPv6 Echo Request packet.

First published (updated )

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