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Wireshark / Ethereal < 1.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

low Nessus Plugin ID 34113

Synopsis

The remote host has an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is affected by multiple issues :

 - The NCP dissector is affected by multiple buffer overflow flaws, and in certain cases may enter a infinite loop (Bug 2675).

 - While uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data, Wireshark could crash (Bug 2649).

 - While reading a Tektronix .rf5 file, Wireshark could crash.

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.3 or later.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 34113

File Name: wireshark_1_0_3.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: Local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/9/2008

Updated: 3/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Wireshark, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

BID: 31009