National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0304

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector in Wireshark 0.9.15 through 1.0.10 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet, as demonstrated using a stack-based buffer overflow to the dissect_getaddrsbyname_request function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0239

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0239

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-lwres-bo(55951)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/55951

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-01.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-01.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023516

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023516

External Source: BID

Name: 37985

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37985

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100129 Re: CVE id request: Wireshark

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/29/4

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/multi/misc/wireshark_lwres_getaddrbyname

Hyperlink:http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/multi/misc/wireshark_lwres_getaddrbyname

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:031

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:031

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1983

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1983

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38829

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38829

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38348

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38348

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38257

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38257

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9933

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9933

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8490

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8490

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 61987

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/61987

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-3556

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036415.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.2/epan/dissectors/packet-lwres.c?view=diff&r1=31596&r2=28492&diff_format=h

Hyperlink:http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.2/epan/dissectors/packet-lwres.c?view=diff&r1=31596&r2=28492&diff_format=h

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9933

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9933

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8490

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8490