National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1455
Original release date:05/12/2010
Last revised:02/17/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The DOCSIS dissector in Wireshark 0.9.6 through 1.0.12 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet trace file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1081
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4646
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4644
External Source: XF
Name: wireshark-docsis-dos(58362)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-04.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-03.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0212
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0076
External Source: BID
Name: 39950
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 64363
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100507 Re: CVE Assignment (wireshark)
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:099
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43068
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42877
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39661
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7331
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2011:002
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2011:001
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7331
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5