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Scientific Linux: SLSA-2014:0342-1 Moderate: Wireshark Denial Of Service

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Moderate: wireshark security update
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:32:19 +0000
Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: wireshark on SL6.x i386/x86_64
MIME-Version: 1.0

Synopsis: Moderate: wireshark security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2014:0342-1
Issue Date: 2014-03-31
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-7112
 CVE-2014-2299
 CVE-2014-2281
 CVE-2013-6336
 CVE-2013-6337
 CVE-2013-6338
 CVE-2013-6339
 CVE-2013-6340
 CVE-2013-7114
 CVE-2014-2283
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Two 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-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2299)

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-2013-6336, CVE-2013-6337,
CVE-2013-6338, CVE-2013-6339, CVE-2013-6340, CVE-2014-2283, CVE-2013-7112,
CVE-2013-7114)

All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to
take effect.
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SL6
 x86_64
 wireshark-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-1.8.10-7.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-7.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-gnome-1.8.10-7.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.8.10-7.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 wireshark-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-gnome-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm
 wireshark-devel-1.8.10-7.el6_5.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team