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[SA41535] Wireshark BER Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 14:17:57 CDT


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TITLE:
Wireshark BER Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA41535

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-09-20

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DESCRIPTION:
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. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
No workaround is currently known.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
NCNIPC penetration test team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
NCNIPC:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-09/0088.html

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