Wireshark ASN.1 BER parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5165)
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Affected Systems:
Wireshark <1.10.9
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 69000
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-5165
Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.
In the ASN.1 BER parser of Wireshark 1.10.0-1.10.8, The dissect_ber_constrained_bitstring function in the epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c does not properly validate the fill value, this allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) through specially crafted data packets ).
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Vendor patch:
Wireshark
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-11.html
Https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 10187
Https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb? P = wireshark. git; a = commit; h = 17a552666b50896a9b9dde8ee6a1052e7f9a622e
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