Wireshark Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux) Network Vulnerability

Summary

The host is installed Wireshark and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability.

Impact

Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, execution of arbitrary code. Impact Level: Application

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15, 1.4.4 or later. For updates refer to http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Insight

The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a '.pcap' file in the pcap-ng format.

Affected

Wireshark version 1.4.3 and prior Wireshark version 1.5.0

References

Updated on 2015-03-25

Severity

Classification

CVSS	Base Score: 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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