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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:32:19 +0000 Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@ Sender: Security Errata for Scientific LinuxFrom: 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 -- 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. -- 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