CVE-2008-3146 Information

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

Reference

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 http://secunia.com/advisories/31864 http://secunia.com/advisories/31886 http://secunia.com/advisories/32028 http://secunia.com/advisories/32091 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10624 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html