Wireshark SMTP Processing Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux) Network Vulnerability

Summary

The Remote host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Impact

Successful attacks may cause the application to crash via specially crafted packets. Impact Level: Application

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.5 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Insight

The flaw is due to an error in the SMTP dissector while processing large SMTP packets.

Affected

Wireshark versions 1.0.4 and prior on Linux

References

Updated on 2015-03-25

Severity

Classification

CVSS	Base Score: 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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