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Wireshark 1.2.2 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Wireshark 1.2.2 and prior [Medium]

Description

The DCERPC/NT dissector in Wireshark 0.10.10 through 1.0.9 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-3550
Severity: Medium

National Vulnerabilities Database

NIST National Vulnerabilities Database

Related OLEX Packages: wireshark
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