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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900212
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities (Sep 2008) - Windows
Summary:Wireshark/Ethereal is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
Wireshark/Ethereal is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaws are due to:

- Infinite loop errors in the NVP dissector

- An error when uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data

- An error when reading a Tektronix .rf5 file

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation could result in denial of service
condition or application crash by injecting a series of malformed
packets or by convincing the victim to read a malformed packet.

Affected Software/OS:
Wireshark versions 1.0.2 and prior on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to wireshark 1.0.3 or later.

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3146
Bugtraq: 20080917 rPSA-2008-0278-1 tshark wireshark (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10624
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:017 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3932
1020819
20080917 rPSA-2008-0278-1 tshark wireshark
31864
31886
32028
32091
ADV-2008-2493
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
ADV-2008-2773
FEDORA-2008-7894
FEDORA-2008-7936
GLSA-200809-17
MDVSA-2008:199
RHSA-2008:0890
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11273
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11273
wireshark-ncp-dos(45309)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45309
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3933
32944
http://secunia.com/advisories/32944
DSA-1673
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9620
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620
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