wireshark -- SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

2008-11-2400:00:00

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CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

72.5%

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Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP dissector
and can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via
a large SMTP packet.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
FreeBSDanynoarchwireshark< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN
FreeBSDanynoarchwireshark-lite< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN
FreeBSDanynoarchethereal< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN
FreeBSDanynoarchethereal-lite< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN
FreeBSDanynoarchtethereal< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN
FreeBSDanynoarchtethereal-lite< 1.0.4_1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
FreeBSD	any	noarch	wireshark	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN
FreeBSD	any	noarch	wireshark-lite	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN
FreeBSD	any	noarch	ethereal	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN
FreeBSD	any	noarch	ethereal-lite	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN
FreeBSD	any	noarch	tethereal	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN
FreeBSD	any	noarch	tethereal-lite	< 1.0.4_1	UNKNOWN