Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.7 Multiple DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85405

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host has an application installed that is affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities :

- An unspecified flaw exists that is triggered when adding an item to the protocol tree. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- An invalid memory freeing flaw exists in the Memory Manager. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- An unspecified flaw exists when searching for a protocol dissector. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- An unspecified flaw exists in the ZigBee dissector. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- A flaw exists in the GSM RLC/MAC dissector that results in an infinite loop. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- An unspecified flaw exists in the WaveAgent dissector. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- A flaw exists in the OpenFlow dissector that results in an infinite loop. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to consume excessive CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- A flaw exists due to improper validation of ptvcursor lengths. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

- An unspecified flaw exists in the WCCP dissector. A remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted packet or packet trace file, to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.12.7 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85405

File Name: wireshark_1_12_7.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/14/2015

Updated: 3/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Wireshark

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2015

Detections

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