6133 : Ethereal SPNEGO Dissector DoS
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7 months ago

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Disclosure

May 14, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

May 14, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered by sending malformed traffic which causes a null pointer dereference in the SPNEGO dissector, and will result in loss of availability for the product.

Classification

Location: Remote/Network Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Available
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. It is also possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): disable SPNEGO protocol dissector

Products

Ethereal
Watch-list
Ethereal
Watch-list
0.9.12
0.9.10
0.9.11
0.9.13
0.9.14
0.9.15
0.9.8
0.9.9
0.10.3
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.10.2
0.9.16

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