Wireshark ZigBee ZCL Dissector Infinite Loop Denial of Service

2011-01-14 / 2011-01-15

Credit: Fred Fierling

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2010-4301

CWE: CWE-399

CVSS Base Score: 5/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 10/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: Partial

Source:  http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44986/info

Wireshark is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to properly handle certain types of packets.

Attackers can exploit this issue to cause the application to enter an infinite loop which may cause denial-of-service conditions.

Wireshark 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 are vulnerable. 

http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/44986.pcap

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5303

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5315&action=edit

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-14.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3038

http://secunia.com/advisories/42290

http://osvdb.org/69355

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