Wireshark Frame Metadissector Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-4020)

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Wireshark Frame Metadissector Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-4020)

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Affected Systems:
Wireshark 1.10.0-1.10.7
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 68044
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-4020
 
Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.
 
Wireshark 1.10.0-1.10.7 has an error in frame metadissector. Attackers can use specially crafted data packets to cause a crash.

Simple use of Wireshark

Install Wireshark in Ubuntu 12.04

Starting Wireshark packet capture from common users in Linux
 
<* Source: vendor

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/58832/
*>

Suggestion:
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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/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.8.html
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-07.html

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