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Green Hat: GHA-2023:0456-01 Medium: PacketCapture Upgrade

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2011
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Newly released wireshark updates correcting several moderate security vulnerabilities are now accessible for Red Hat consumers.
Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 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/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Summary

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in Wireshark. If Wireshark opened a specially-crafted capture file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2011-0024)
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-2010-3445, CVE-2011-0538, CVE-2011-1139, CVE-2011-1140, CVE-2011-1141, CVE-2011-1143)
Users of Wireshark should 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 Red Hat buffer overflow moderate impact DoS threat network service wireshark

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3445 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0024 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0538 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1139 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1140 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1141 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1143 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm
ia64: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm
ppc: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.ppc.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.ppc.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.ppc.rpm
s390: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.s390.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.s390.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.s390.rpm
s390x: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.s390x.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.s390x.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:
Source:
i386: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm
ia64: wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:0370-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0370.html
Issue date: 2011-03-21

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 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 Red Hat buffer overflow moderate impact DoS threat network service 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 AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

639486 - CVE-2010-3445 wireshark: stack overflow in BER dissector

671331 - CVE-2011-0024 heap-based buffer overflow in wireshark < 1.2 when reading malformed capture files

676232 - CVE-2011-0538 Wireshark: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file (upstream bug #5652)

681748 - CVE-2011-1139 Wireshark: Denial Of Service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field

681754 - CVE-2011-1140 Wireshark: Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities caused DoS via crafted SMB or CLDAP packet

681756 - CVE-2011-1141 Wireshark: Malformed LDAP filter string causes Denial of Service via excessive memory consumption

681760 - CVE-2011-1143 Wireshark: Null pointer dereference causing application crash when reading malformed pcap file

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