National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1562
Original release date:03/31/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5740.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)
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The affected version of Wireshark as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 were fixed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-3040
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-2941
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2418
External Source: XF
Name: wireshark-ldap-dissector-dos(41516)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019728
External Source: BID
Name: 28485
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080404 rPSA-2008-0138-1 tshark wireshark
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0890
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:091
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200805-05
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2773
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1007
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32091
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29971
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29736
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29695
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29622
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29569
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:008