CVE-2008-1561 Information

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29569 http://secunia.com/advisories/29622 http://secunia.com/advisories/29695 http://secunia.com/advisories/29736 http://secunia.com/advisories/29971 http://secunia.com/advisories/32091 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-05.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:091 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490487/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28485 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019728 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1007/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41514 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41515 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2418 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15089 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9315 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00140.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html