SecurityAlert : 4663 CVE : CVE-2008-5285 CWE : CWE-399 SecurityRisk : Medium (About) Remote Exploit : Yes Local Exploit : No Victim interaction required : No Exploit Given : No Credit : Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center Published : 03.12.2008
On Nov 2008, Security Vulnerability Research Team of Bkis (SVRT-Bkis) has
detected a vulnerability underlying WireShark 1.0.4 (lastest version).
The flaw is in the function processing SMTP protocol and enables hacker to
perform a DoS attack by sending a SMTP request with large content to port
25. The application then enter a large loop and cannot do anything else.
We have contacted the vendor of Wireshark. They fixed this vulnerability
for
Wireshark 1.0.5 but they haven't released the official version yet.
Details
is here : http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Roadmap
SVRT Advisory : SVRT-04-08
Initial vendor notification : 11-14-2008
Release Date : 11-22-2008
Update Date : 11-22-2008
Discovered by : SVRT-Bkis
Security Rating : Less Critical
Impact : DoS
Affected Software :Wireshark 1.0.4 (prev is vulnerable)
2. Solution
Althrough the official version for this vulnerability hasn't been released
yet, the vendor has updated the fix in the prerelease Wireshark 1.0.5.
Download the prerelease version of Wireshark 1.0.5 here:
http://www.wireshark.org/download/prerelease/
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