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Scientific Linux 6.x: CVE-2010-4538 Moderate Wireshark Buffer Overflow

Calendar Mar 03, 2011 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Moderate: wireshark security update 
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:29:17 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: wireshark on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: wireshark security update
Issue date:	2011-01-10
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-4538

An array index error, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow, was
found in the Wireshark ENTTEC 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-2010-4538)

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

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.src.rpm
 i386:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson