Description
The ASN.1 parser in Ethereal 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain malformed packet, which causes Ethereal to allocate memory incorrectly, possibly due to zero-length fields.
References
- http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html
- 4604 vdb-entry
- CLA-2002:474 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2002:088 vendor-advisory
- ethereal-asn1-dos(8952) vdb-entry
- DSA-130 vendor-advisory