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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22590

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1228/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

Errors within the HTTP, LDAP, XOT, WBXML, and MIME parsers can be
exploited to cause a crash or consume large amounts of memory when
parsing a specially crafted packet that is either captured off the
wire or loaded via a capture file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 0.99.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.99.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html

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