Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] HP JetDirect and ethereal SNMP vulnerabilities

[Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:48 AM -0500 2/20/02, David Moore wrote:

>This just floated by in my email and implies an SNMP related expoit
>that will crash ethereal. They
>don't state which version of ethereal. I have not tested it myself.
>
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>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>    * Subject: [Fwd: Cert Advisory 2002-03 and HP JetDirect]
>>    * Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:59:45 -0500

>>
>>      As an interesting side note, Ethereal (a popular open source sniffer /
>>      traffic analyzer) crashes every time it sees this packet
>>also.  It gives the
>>      error "GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes aborting...".

I saw this too. I'm in the midst of rebuilding ethereal and I'll
try to reproduce it.

Breen

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