Scientific Linux 6.x: 2012-04-23 Moderate: Wireshark Multiple Flaws

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:01:49 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Patrick Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: wireshark on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: wireshark security update
Issue Date: 2012-04-23
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-1143
 CVE-2011-1590
 CVE-2011-1957
 CVE-2011-1959
 CVE-2011-2174
 CVE-2011-2175
 CVE-2011-1958
 CVE-2011-2597
 CVE-2011-2698
 CVE-2011-4102
 CVE-2012-0041
 CVE-2012-0042
 CVE-2012-0066
 CVE-2012-0067
 CVE-2012-1595

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was
previously known as Ethereal.

Several flaws were found in Wireshark. 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-2011-1590,
CVE-2011-4102, CVE-2012-1595)

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-2011-1143, CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958,
CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175, CVE-2011-2597, CVE-2011-2698,
CVE-2012-0041, CVE-2012-0042, CVE-2012-0067, CVE-2012-0066)

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.

SL6:
 i386
 wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-gnome-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-gnome-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team