FreeBSD : Wireshark -- DoS in the BER-based dissectors (b2eaa7c2-e64a-11df-bc65-0022156e8794)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50500

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Secunia reports :

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error in the 'dissect_unknown_ber()' function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c and can be exploited to cause a stack overflow e.g. via a specially crafted SNMP packet.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.0 and reported in version 1.2.11 and prior and version 1.4.0 and prior.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50500

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b2eaa7c2e64a11dfbc650022156e8794.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:tshark, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:tshark-lite, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wireshark-lite, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3445

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