Wireshark Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Mac OS X) Network Vulnerability

Summary

This 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 or 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 1.5.0 Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3

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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