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Gentoo: GLSA-201706-12 Moderate: Wireshark Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2017
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The Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202309-15 has been released regarding vulnerabilities in OpenSSL that may lead to potential data breaches; users are urged to upgrade.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo security issue Wireshark

Resolution

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-2.2.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-6014 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6014 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-7700 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7700 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-7701 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7701 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-7702 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7702 [ 5 ] CVE-2017-7703 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7703 [ 6 ] CVE-2017-7704 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7704 [ 7 ] CVE-2017-7705 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7705

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 06, 2017
Bugs: #609646, #615462
ID: 201706-12

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo security issue Wireshark

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 2.2.6 >= 2.2.6

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted network packet using Wireshark, possibly resulting a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.