CVE-2010-0304
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Memory corruption
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
Multiple buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector in Wireshark 0.9.15 through 1.0.10 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet, as demonstrated using a stack-based buffer overflow to the dissect_getaddrsbyname_request function.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)73%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38257Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38348Advisory
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.2/epan/dissectors/packet-lwres.c?view=diff&r1=31596&r2=28492&diff_format=h
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036415.html
- http://osvdb.org/61987
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38829
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1983
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:031