National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3133

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 0.8.4 through 1.0.15 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.10 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse airpcap.dll, and possibly other DLLs, that is located in the same folder as a file that automatically launches Wireshark.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html CWE-426 - 'Untrusted Search Path Vulnerability'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-10.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-10.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-09.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-09.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2243

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2243

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2165

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2165

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 14721

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14721/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41064

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41064

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11498

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11498

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11498

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11498