7537 : Ethereal SMB SID Snooping No Policy Handle DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-07-06

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when SMB SID snooping is used and there is no policy name for a handle, which will result in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.5 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 SID snooping in the SMB protocol preferences.

Products

Ethereal	Ethereal	0.9.15
		0.9.16
		0.10.0
		0.10.0a
		0.10.1
		0.10.2
		0.10.3
		0.10.4

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 12024 12034 12035 12068 12237
CVE ID: 2004-0634 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 7536 7538
Other Advisory URL: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-378.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-08.xml
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:067
Vendor URL: http://www.ethereal.com/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.netwosix.org/adv16.html

Tools & Filters

	13738 13739 14166 14215

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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