---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bist Du interessiert an einem neuen Job in IT-Sicherheit? Secunia hat zwei freie Stellen als Junior und Senior Spezialist in IT- Sicherheit: http://secunia.com/secunia_vacancies/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Kismet Multiple Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA16447 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/16447/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Unknown, System access WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: Kismet http://secunia.com/product/5544/ DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Kismet, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. 1) An error in handling of unprintable characters in the SSID has an unknown impact. 2) Some integer underflows in the pcap handling can potentially be exploited cause heap corruption when replaying a pcap file. 3) An integer underflow in the data frame dissection can potentially be exploited to cause heap corruption and possibly execute arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Update to version 2005-08-R1. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------