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 the Debian bug ID #609988 and #712648. --- dsniff-2.4/decode_tds.c 2013-12-19 23:36:26.000000000 +0100 +++ dsniff-2.4/decode_tds.c.tds_decoder 2013-12-19 23:38:01.000000000 +0100 @@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ len > sizeof(*th) && len >= ntohs(th->size); buf += ntohs(th->size), len -= ntohs(th->size)) { + if (th->size != 8) { + /* wrong header length */ + break; + } + if (th->type == 2) { /* Version 4.x, 5.0 */ if (len < sizeof(*th) + sizeof(*tl))