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Wireshark : CVE-2010-3133 : DLL hijacking vulnerability in Wireshark

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Wireshark : CVE-2010-3133 : DLL hijacking vulnerability in Wireshark

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/26/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/04/2017
Modified
10/04/2017

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 0.8.4 through 1.0.15 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.10 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse airpcap.dll, and possibly other DLLs, that is located in the same folder as a file that automatically launches Wireshark.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-1_0_15
  • wireshark-upgrade-1_2_11

References

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