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Wireshark contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DHCP dissector

Vulnerability Note VU#335656

Original Release Date: 2006-10-12 | Last Revised: 2006-10-25

Overview

Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition.

Description

Wireshark for Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability may be exploited when the remote attacker sends a specially crafted, malformed packet or by convincing the user to read a malformed packet trace file.

Wireshark states that Wireshark versions 0.7.9 up to and including 0.99.2 are vulnerable.

Note: Ethereal has changed its name to Wireshark.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service condition.

Solution

Update
Wireshark has released an updated product version (Wireshark 0.99.3).

Workaround

Wireshark provides a workaround in security document wnpa-sec-2006-02.

Vendor Information

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References

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in Wireshark document wnpa-sec-2006-02.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2006-4332
Severity Metric: 3.04
Date Public: 2006-08-25
Date First Published: 2006-10-12
Date Last Updated: 2006-10-25 17:12 UTC
Document Revision: 15

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