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wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wireshark ethereal CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4574 CVE-2006-4805 CVE-2006-5468 CVE-2006-5469 CVE-2006-5740
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2006
Description: There are multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal):
  • Off-by-one error in the MIME Multipart dissector in Wireshark 0.10.1 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger an assertion error related to unexpected length values. CVE-2006-4574
  • epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded. CVE-2006-4805
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the HTTP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors. CVE-2006-5468
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark 0.10.11 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger a null dereference. CVE-2006-5469
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the LDAP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted LDAP packet. CVE-2006-5740
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:065 2006-11-14
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0726-01 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:195 2006-11-02
Debian DSA-1201-1 2006-10-31
rPath rPSA-2006-0202-1 2006-11-01
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1140 2006-11-01
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1141 2006-11-01

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