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Wireshark 0.99.7 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Wireshark 0.99.7 and prior [Medium]

Description

The SCTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-1070
Severity: Medium

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Related OLEX Packages: wireshark
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