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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: RHSA-2014:0341-01 Moderate: Wireshark DoS

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2014
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Wireshark announces a Significant security enhancement for Ubuntu, fixing several weaknesses.
Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.
Multiple flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2013-3559, CVE-2013-4083, CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2299)
Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2012-5595, CVE-2012-5598, CVE-2012-5599, CVE-2012-5600, CVE-2012-6056, CVE-2012-6060, CVE-2012-6061, CVE-2012-6062, CVE-2013-3557, CVE-2013-4081, CVE-2013-4927, CVE-2013-4931, CVE-2013-4932, CVE-2013-4933, CVE-2013-4934, CVE-2013-4935, CVE-2013-5721, CVE-2013-7112)
All Wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service network protocol red hat enterprise linux wireshark

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5595 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5598 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5599 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5600 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6056 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6060 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6061 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6062 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3557 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3559 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4081 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4083 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4927 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4931 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4932 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4933 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4934 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4935 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5721 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7112 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2299 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
ia64: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm
ppc: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm
s390x: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0341-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0341.html
Issue date: 2014-03-31

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service network protocol red hat enterprise linux wireshark

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

881742 - CVE-2012-5600 CVE-2012-6062 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the RTCP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-38)

881748 - CVE-2012-5599 CVE-2012-6061 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the WTP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-37)

881771 - CVE-2012-5598 CVE-2012-6060 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the iSCSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-36)

881809 - CVE-2012-5595 CVE-2012-6056 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the SCTP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-33)

965190 - CVE-2013-3559 wireshark: DoS (crash) in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-27, upstream #8231, #8540, #8541)

965193 - CVE-2013-3557 wireshark: DoS (crash) in the ASN.1 BER dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-25, upstream #8599)

972686 - CVE-2013-4081 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the HTTP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-39)

972688 - CVE-2013-4083 wireshark: Invalid free in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-41)

990166 - CVE-2013-4927 wireshark: Integer signedness error in the Bluetooth SDP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-45)

990170 - CVE-2013-4931 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the GSM RR dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-49)

990172 - CVE-2013-4932 wireshark: Multiple array index errors in the GSM A Common dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-50)

990175 - CVE-2013-4933 wireshark: DoS (application crash) in the Netmon file parser (wnpa-sec-2013-51)

990178 - CVE-2013-4934 wireshark: DoS (application crash) in the Netmon file parser (wnpa-sec-2013-51) (A different flaw than CVE-2013-4933)

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