Kaspersky Threats

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

An improper operand validation offsets in the SIGCOMP protocol dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
Infinite loops in multiple dissectors can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An improper certain types of packets handling in the UMTS MAC dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An improper certain types of packets handling in the IEEE 802.11 dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An improper certain types of packets handling in the FCP protocol dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An improper certain types of packets handling in the DOCSIS dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An unspecified vulnerability in pcapng file parser can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An unspecified vulnerability in the IPMI dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An unspecified vulnerability in the SIGCOMP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;
An unspecified vulnerability in the NBAP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause denial of service;

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