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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal radius dissector vulnerability

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:58:33 -0600
Jonathan Heusser wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> during an audit I found a vulnerability in the radius dissector of
> ethereal version 0.10.2
> (and probably prior to aswell).
> This bug allows a remote attacker to cause at least a denial of service
> attack. The execution of
> arbitrary code could be possible..

Thanks.  A change that should fix this has been checked in, although I
don't have any invalid RADIUS captures to test against.