Patch by Hilko Bengen for dsniff >= 2.4b1, to avoid a possible DoS opportunity in the Tabular Data Stream protocol handler. For further information, please have a look to Debian bug ID #609988. --- dsniff-2.4/decode_tds.c 2011-10-09 18:13:49.000000000 +0200 +++ dsniff-2.4/decode_tds.c.tds_decoder 2011-10-09 18:14:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ obuf[0] = '\0'; + if (th->size != 8) { + /* wrong header length */ + return (strlen(obuf)); + } + for (th = (struct tds_hdr *)buf; len > sizeof(*th) && len >= ntohs(th->size); buf += ntohs(th->size), len -= ntohs(th->size)) {