Wireshark 1.10.x < 1.10.9 Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76992

Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Wireshark is version 1.10.x prior to 1.10.9.
It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- A buffer underflow flaw exists in the 'dissect_log' function of the IrDA dissector, which is triggered when handling malformed packets. Using a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service by crashing the application. (CVE-2014-5161)

- A buffer underflow flaw exists in the 'read_new_line' function of the DCT2000 dissector, which is triggered when handling malformed packets. Using a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service by crashing the application. (CVE-2014-5162)

- An APN decode flaw exists in the GTP and GSM Management dissectors, which is triggered when handling malformed packets. Using a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service by crashing the application. (CVE-2014-5163)

- An initialization flaw exists in the 'rlc_decode_li' function of the RLC dissector, which is triggered when handling malformed packets. Using a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service by crashing the application. (CVE-2014-5164)

- A padding validation flaw exists within the ASN.1 BER dissector, which is triggered when handling malformed packets. Using a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service by crashing the application. (CVE-2014-5165)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.10.9 or later.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-08.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-09.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-10.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-11.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.9.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76992

File Name: wireshark_1_10_9.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/4/2014

Updated: 3/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark

Required KB Items: SMB/Wireshark/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5161, CVE-2014-5162, CVE-2014-5163, CVE-2014-5164, CVE-2014-5165

BID: 69005, 69000, 69001, 69002, 69003