Fedora Core 5 Wireshark 0.99.2 Critical: Format String Issues

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering

library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and

documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged

separately to GTK+ package.

Versions affected: 0.8.16 up to and including 0.99.0

Details

Description

Wireshark 0.99.2 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

* The GSM BSSMAP dissector could crash. Versions

affected: 0.10.11. CVE:

CVE-2006-3627

Ilja van Sprundel discovered the following vulnerabilities:

* The ANSI MAP dissector was vulnerable to a format

string overflow.

Versions affected: 0.10.0. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

* The Checkpoint FW-1 dissector was vulnerable to a

format string overflow.

Versions affected: 0.10.10. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

* The MQ dissector was vulnerable to a format string

overflow. Versions

affected: 0.10.4. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

* The XML dissector was vulnerable to a format string

overflow. Versions

affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

* The MOUNT dissector could attempt to allocate large

amounts of memory.

Versions affected: 0.9.4. CVE: CVE-2006-3629

* The NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors were susceptible to

off-by-one errors.

Versions affected: 0.9.7. CVE: CVE-2006-3630

* The NTP dissector was vulnerable to a format string

overflow. Versions

affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

* The SSH dissector was vulnerable to an infinite loop.

Versions affected:

0.9.10. CVE: CVE-2006-3631

* The NFS dissector may have been susceptible to a

buffer overflow. Versions

affected: 0.8.16. CVE: CVE-2006-3632

Impact

It may be possible to make Ethereal crash, use up available

memory, or run

arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet

onto the wire or by

convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Resolution

Upgrade to Wireshark 0.99.2.

- fix BuildRequires

* Tue Jul 25 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.2-fc5.1

- build for FC5

* Tue Jul 18 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.2-1

- upgrade to 0.99.2

* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating - 0.99.2-0.pre1.1

- rebuild

* Tue Jul 11 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.2-0.pre1

- upgrade to 0.99.2pre1, fixes (#198242)

* Tue Jun 13 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.1-0.pre1

- spec file changes

* Fri Jun 9 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.1pre1-1

- initial build for Fedora Core

f1d9b2cef1401a5f2de96e94c6abca2e32255129 SRPMS/wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2.src.rpm

f1d9b2cef1401a5f2de96e94c6abca2e32255129 noarch/wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2.src.rpm

ae0b87f149021f18217e6e1efdd7826a64f73c95 ppc/wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2.ppc.rpm

5ad8121ba4bacc956691a992e87c264753e20152 ppc/wireshark-gnome-0.99.2-fc5.2.ppc.rpm

3d592a657a1e919cd236130a44307bac46652d33 ppc/debug/wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.2-fc5.2.ppc.rpm

94bbe410546b308e395531b3664f1961867d8cce x86_64/wireshark-gnome-0.99.2-fc5.2.x86_64.rpm

4148be8dbb210052648edbd372ce0c7c5eecaeeb x86_64/wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2.x86_64.rpm

aa2f5af96bc0bafb6cf3f0ce16bf4bf48bc04418 x86_64/debug/wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.2-fc5.2.x86_64.rpm

f601eb9e09760675498d931bb6fbce54c6f9e123 i386/wireshark-gnome-0.99.2-fc5.2.i386.rpm

67cd230efa9175b2d322f8e238dc8fcfa5bcda57 i386/wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2.i386.rpm

4c072da9fadc48a4eace524448979c9375e6043e i386/debug/wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.2-fc5.2.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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