Scientific Linux 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x: Moderate Wireshark Security Fix

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:22:15 -0500
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:	2010-08-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-1455 CVE-2010-2283 CVE-2010-2284
 CVE-2010-2286 CVE-2010-2287 CVE-2010-2995

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark SigComp
Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine (UDVM) dissector. 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-2010-2287, CVE-2010-2995)

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-2010-1455, CVE-2010-2283,
CVE-2010-2284, CVE-2010-2286)

NOTE: This errata updates Wireshark to version 1.0.15 to resolve these
issues.

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

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.15-EL3.1.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.15-EL3.1.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-EL3.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.15-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el4_8.1.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_5.1.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson