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Wireshark : CVE-2008-3146 : Multiple problems in Wireshark

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Wireshark : CVE-2008-3146 : Multiple problems in Wireshark

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/02/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/03/2018
Modified
05/03/2018

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-1_0_3

References

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