Ethereal up to 0.10.12 IrDA Dissector denial of service

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A vulnerability has been found in Ethereal (Packet Analyzer Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component IrDA Dissector. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Ethereal 0.10.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors in (1) the IrDA dissector and (2) the SMB dissector when SMB transaction payload reassembly is enabled.

The weakness was released 10/19/2005 by iDefense with iDEFENSE (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at ethereal.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-3242 since 10/17/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21865 (CentOS 3 / 4 : ethereal (CESA-2005:809)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117829 (CentOS Security Update for Ethereal (CESA-2005:809)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 6 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22808) and Tenable (21865). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 26678, 26677, 26676 and 26675.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

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Nessus ID: 21865
Nessus Name: CentOS 3 / 4 : ethereal (CESA-2005:809)
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OpenVAS ID: 57356
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1171-1 (ethereal)
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Advisory: ethereal.com
Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-3242 (🔍)
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X-Force: 22808
SecurityTracker: 1015082
Vulnerability Center: 9522 - Etereal up to 0.10.12 DoS via IrDA \x26 SMB Dissectors, Medium
SecurityFocus: 15148 - Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13
Secunia: 17254 - Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector and PCRE Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 20125 - Ethereal IrDA Dissector Unspecified DoS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/10/2019 21:14
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (90), 06/10/2019 21:14 (3)
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