Ethereal up to 0.10.12 denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Ethereal up to 0.10.12 (Packet Analyzer Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in the WSP dissector in Ethereal 0.10.1 to 0.10.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or corrupt memory via unknown vectors that cause Ethereal to free an invalid pointer.

The bug was discovered 10/19/2005. The weakness was presented 10/19/2005 by iDefense with iDEFENSE (Website). The advisory is available at ethereal.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-3249 since 10/17/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available 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 (22812) and Tenable (21865). See 26677, 26676, 26675 and 26674 for similar entries.

Productinfo

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Packet Analyzer Software

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Ethereal

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open-source

Support

end of life

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

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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 21865
Nessus Name: CentOS 3 / 4 : ethereal (CESA-2005:809)
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OpenVAS ID: 55783
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-25 (Ethereal)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ethereal.com
Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-3249 (🔍)
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X-Force: 22812
SecurityTracker: 1015082
Vulnerability Center: 9533 - Ethereal 0.10.1 - 0.10.12 DoS via WSP Dissector, 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: 20136 - Ethereal WSP Dissector Invalid Pointer DoS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/11/2019 06:22
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (89), 06/11/2019 06:22 (4)
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