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[ GLSA 200808-04 ] Wireshark: Denial of Service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-04


                                        http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal
Title: Wireshark: Denial of Service
Date: August 06, 2008
Bugs: #230411, #231587
ID: 200808-04


Synopsis

Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in
Wireshark.

Background

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.

Affected packages

-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Package                 /  Vulnerable  /               Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 1.0.2 >= 1.0.2

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities related to memory management were discovered
in the GSM SMS dissector (CVE-2008-3137), the PANA and KISMET
dissectors (CVE-2008-3138), the RTMPT dissector (CVE-2008-3139), the
syslog dissector (CVE-2008-3140) and the RMI dissector (CVE-2008-3141)
and when reassembling fragmented packets (CVE-2008-3145).

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a
specially crafted packet on a network being monitored by Wireshark or
enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace file, causing a Denial
of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.2&quot;

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3137
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3137
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-3138
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3138
[ 3 ] CVE-2008-3139
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3139
[ 4 ] CVE-2008-3140
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3140
[ 5 ] CVE-2008-3141
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3141
[ 6 ] CVE-2008-3145
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3145

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5