5 Medium
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
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
72.8%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804911");
script_version("2024-02-09T05:06:25+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-6430", "CVE-2014-6428", "CVE-2014-6427", "CVE-2014-6432",
"CVE-2014-6431", "CVE-2014-6429", "CVE-2014-6423", "CVE-2014-6424");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-09 05:06:25 +0000 (Fri, 09 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-09-23 16:50:21 +0530 (Tue, 23 Sep 2014)");
script_name("Wireshark DOS Vulnerability-01 (Sep 2014) - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws are due to:
- SnifferDecompress function does not prevent data overwrites, validate
bitmask data, and does not properly handle empty input data.
- Improper initialization of certain ID value in the dissect_spdu function
under SES dissector.
- Off-by-one error in the is_rtsp_request_or_reply function under the RTSP
dissector.
- The dissect_v9_v10_pdu_data function under Netflow dissector refers incorrect
offset and start variables.
- An error in tvb_raw_text_add function in MEGACO dissector");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
attacker to cause denial of service attack.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.10.x
before 1.10.10 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1 on Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 1.12.1, 1.10.10 or later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/61590");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69853");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69857");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69858");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69859");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69860");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69861");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69862");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69865");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Wireshark/MacOSX/Version");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!version = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if((version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.10.0", test_version2:"1.10.9")) ||
(version_is_equal(version:version, test_version:"1.12.0")))
{
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
exit(0);
}