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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3-5: RHSA-2008:0890-01 Moderate: Wireshark DoS

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical reveals a minor Ubuntu enhancement to fix several vulnerabilities affecting releases 20.04, 20.10, and 21.04.
Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security imp...

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.
Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-3146)
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 malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-1070, CVE-2008-1071, CVE-2008-1072, CVE-2008-1561, CVE-2008-1562, CVE-2008-1563, CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145, CVE-2008-3932, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934)
Additionally, this update changes the default Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration to always prompt for the root password before each start of Wireshark. This avoids unintentionally running Wireshark with root privileges.
Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.3, and resolve these issues.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1070 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1071 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1072 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1561 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1562 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1563 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3137 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3138 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3141 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3145 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3146 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3932 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3933 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3934 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/ https://www.wireshark.org/security/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm
ia64: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.ia64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.ia64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.ia64.rpm
ppc: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.ppc.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.ppc.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.ppc.rpm
s390: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390.rpm
s390x: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390x.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390x.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 3:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-EL3.3.i386.rpm
ia64: wireshark-1.0.3-EL3.3.ia64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0890-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0890.html
Issue date: 2008-10-01

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact security issues wireshark update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

435481 - CVE-2008-1070 wireshark: SCTP dissector crash

435482 - CVE-2008-1071 wireshark: SNMP dissector crash

435483 - CVE-2008-1072 wireshark: TFTP dissector crash

439943 - CVE-2008-1563 wireshark: crash in SCCP dissector

440014 - CVE-2008-1561 wireshark: crash in X.509sat and Roofnet dissectors

440015 - CVE-2008-1562 wireshark: crash in LDAP dissector

448584 - Don't automatically use stored privileges

454970 - CVE-2008-3137 wireshark: crash in the GSM SMS dissector

454971 - CVE-2008-3138 wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors

454975 - CVE-2008-3141 wireshark: memory disclosure in the RMI dissector

454984 - CVE-2008-3145 wireshark: crash in the packet reassembling

461242 - CVE-2008-3146 wireshark: multiple buffer overflows in NCP dissector

461243 - CVE-2008-3932 wireshark: infinite loop in the NCP dissector

461244 - CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data

461245 - CVE-2008-3934 wireshark: crash via crafted Tektronix .rf5 file

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