Medium: wireshark

Issue Overview:

Multiple 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-2014-6429, CVE-2014-6430, CVE-2014-6431, CVE-2014-6432)

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-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422, CVE-2014-6423, CVE-2014-6424, CVE-2014-6425, CVE-2014-6426, CVE-2014-6427, CVE-2014-6428)

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Issue Correction:
Run yum update wireshark to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.i686  
    wireshark-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.i686  
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    wireshark-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    wireshark-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422, CVE-2014-6423, CVE-2014-6424, CVE-2014-6425, CVE-2014-6426, CVE-2014-6427, CVE-2014-6428, CVE-2014-6429, CVE-2014-6430, CVE-2014-6431, CVE-2014-6432

Mitre: CVE-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422, CVE-2014-6423, CVE-2014-6424, CVE-2014-6425, CVE-2014-6426, CVE-2014-6427, CVE-2014-6428, CVE-2014-6429, CVE-2014-6430, CVE-2014-6431, CVE-2014-6432