Intrusion PreventionEthereal.iSNS.Zero.Length.Crash
Description
It indicates a possible exploit of an Integer Overflow vulnerability in the iSNS dissector for Ethereal/Wireshark.
A remote attacker could cause Ethereal to crash via a specially crafted packet.
Affected Products
Ethereal 0.10.3 - 0.10.4
Impact
Denial of Service: Remote attackers can crash vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Upgrade to the latest version of Ethereal (now known as Wireshark):
https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
Version Updates
| Date | Version | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-11 | 16.978 |
| ID | 14335 |
| Created | Mar 13, 2007 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | pass |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux |
| Affected App | Other |