Scientific Linux: Moderate Wireshark Security Update - Denial Of Service

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:30:22 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: wireshark security update
Issue date:	2009-03-04
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-4680 CVE-2008-4681 CVE-2008-4682
 CVE-2008-4683 CVE-2008-4684 CVE-2008-4685
 CVE-2008-5285 CVE-2009-0599 CVE-2009-0600

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark
read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file,
it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running
Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599)

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-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681,
CVE-2008-4682,CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600)

All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to
take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-EL3.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-EL3.3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el4_7.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.el4_7.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el5_3.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el5_3.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.el5_3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.6-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson