Wireshark CSN.1 resolution program DoS Vulnerability

Source: Internet
Author: User

Release date: 2011-11-01
Updated on: 2011-11-03

Affected Systems:
Wireshark 1.6.x
Wireshark 1.4.x
Unaffected system:
Wireshark 1.6.3
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 50479
Cve id: CVE-2011-4100

Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is a network group analysis software.

Wireshark has a null pointer reference vulnerability in the implementation of the CSN.1 parsing program. Attackers can trick users into reading malformed packet tracking files or injecting malformed packets to crash Wireshark.

<* Source: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Link: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 6351
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html
*>

Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Wireshark
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Wireshark has released a Security Bulletin (wnpa-sec-2011-17) and corresponding patches for this:

Wnpa-sec-2011-17: Wireshark CSN.1 dissector vulnerability

Link: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html

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