Summary
The host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.4.4 or 1.2.15 or later, For updates refer to http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Insight
The flaws are due to
- Improper bounds checking by the Visual C++ analyzer.
- Error in 'wiretap/pcapng.c', which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.
Affected
Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14
Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0713, CVE-2011-1139 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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