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TITLE:
Wireshark Packet Reassembly Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31044

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31044/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1228/
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18083/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when reassembling packets
and can be exploited to cause the application to crash when processing
a series of malformed packets that are either captured off the wire or
loaded via a capture file.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.8.19 to 1.0.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
wnpa-sec-2008-04:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-04.html

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