Debian 1673-1 Critical: Wireshark Remote Attacks and Denial of Service
debian
November 29, 2008
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered network traffic
analyzer Wireshark
Topics Covered
Summary
The GSM SMS dissector is vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-3138
The PANA and KISMET dissectors are vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-3141
The RMI dissector could disclose system memory.
CVE-2008-3145
The packet reassembling module is vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-3933
The zlib uncompression module is vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-4683
The Bluetooth ACL dissector is vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-4684
The PRP and MATE dissectors are vulnerable to denial of service.
CVE-2008-4685
The Q931 dissector is vulnerable to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.4-5.etch.3.
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.
Upgrade instructions
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