Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including an iSNS protocol dissector vulnerability, a SMB protocol dissector vulnerability, and a SNMP protocol dissector vulnerability. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly handle malformed packets. Successful exploitation of these issues will allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the affected application, it has also been reported that these issues may facilitate arbitrary code execution.
Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including an iSNS protocol dissector vulnerability, a SMB protocol dissector vulnerability, and a SNMP protocol dissector vulnerability. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly handle malformed packets. Successful exploitation of these issues will allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the affected application, it has also been reported that these issues may facilitate arbitrary code execution.