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SUSE-SR:2005:003:vuln17: various ethereal protocol decoder problems

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SUSE-SR:2005:003:vuln17: various ethereal protocol decoder problems

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/04/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/24/2006
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

The HTTP dissector in Ethereal 0.10.1 through 0.10.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain packet that causes the dissector to access previously-freed memory.

Solution(s)

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