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Red Hat 7 RHSA-2015:2393-01 Moderate: Wireshark Network Flaws

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2015
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Numerous vulnerabilities affecting wireshark on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have been resolved in this advisory update classified as moderate severity.
Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.
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-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191, CVE-2015-3810, CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8714, CVE-2015-0562, CVE-2015-0563, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-3182, CVE-2015-6243, CVE-2015-6244, CVE-2015-6245, CVE-2015-6246, CVE-2015-6248)
The CVE-2015-3182 issue was discovered by Martin Žember of Red Hat.
The wireshark packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.10.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1238676)
This update also fixes the following bug:
* Prior to this update, when using the tshark utility to capture packets over the interface, tshark failed to create output files in the .pcap format even if it was specified using the "-F" option. This bug has been fixed, the "-F" option is now honored, and the result saved in the .pcap format as expected. (BZ#1227199)
In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:
* Previously, wireshark included only microseconds in the .pcapng format. With this update, wireshark supports nanosecond time stamp precision to allow for more accurate time stamps. (BZ#1213339)
All wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat moderate severity wireshark network issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8710 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8711 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8712 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8714 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0562 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0563 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0564 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2188 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2189 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2191 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3182 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3810 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3811 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3812 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3813 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6244 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6245 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6246 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6248 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
ppc64: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc.rpm wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.s390.rpm wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.s390.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2393-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2393.html
Issue date: 2015-11-19

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs,and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat moderate severity wireshark network issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1163581 - CVE-2014-8714 wireshark: TN5250 infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-23)

1163582 - CVE-2014-8712 CVE-2014-8713 wireshark: NCP dissector crashes (wnpa-sec-2014-22)

1163583 - CVE-2014-8711 wireshark: AMQP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-21)

1163584 - CVE-2014-8710 wireshark: SigComp dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-20)

1180182 - CVE-2015-0562 wireshark: DEC DNA Routing Protocol dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-03)

1180195 - CVE-2015-0563 wireshark: SMTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-04)

1180197 - CVE-2015-0564 wireshark: TLS/SSL decryption crash (wnpa-sec-2015-05)

1199163 - CVE-2015-2188 wireshark: The WCP dissector could crash while decompressing data (wnpa-sec-2015-07)

1199165 - CVE-2015-2189 wireshark: The pcapng file parser could crash (wnpa-sec-2015-08)

1199167 - CVE-2015-2191 wireshark: The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop on 32-bit architectures (wnpa-sec-2015-10)

1219409 - CVE-2015-3182 wireshark: crash on sample file genbroad.snoop

1222434 - CVE-2015-3810 wireshark: WebSocket DoS (wnpa-sec-2015-13)

1222436 - CVE-2015-3811 wireshark: WCP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-14)

1222437 - CVE-2015-3812 wireshark: X11 memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-15)

1222438 - CVE-2015-3813 wireshark: Reassembly memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-16)

1253354 - CVE-2015-6243 wireshark: Dissector table crash (wnpa-sec-2015-23)

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