CVE-2006-4805 (GCVE-0-2006-4805)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-27 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:23
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded.
References
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-255.htm x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/23096 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1201 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-746 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/22590 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SGI
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4220 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29843 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/22841 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723736 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20762 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10199 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_65_ethereal.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0726.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450307/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/22659 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22692 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:195 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017129 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/22672 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22797 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
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