Lucene search

K
centosCentOS ProjectCESA-2008:0058
HistoryJan 21, 2008 - 5:15 p.m.

libsmi, wireshark security update

2008-01-2117:15:49
CentOS Project
lists.centos.org
45

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.072 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.9%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0058

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

Several flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark if it read a malformed
packet off the network. (CVE-2007-6112, CVE-2007-6114, CVE-2007-6115,
CVE-2007-6117)

Several denial of service bugs were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could
crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.
(CVE-2007-6111, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6116, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6119,
CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121, CVE-2007-6438, CVE-2007-6439, CVE-2007-6441,
CVE-2007-6450, CVE-2007-6451)

As well, Wireshark switched from using net-snmp to libsmi, which is
included in this errata.

Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Wireshark version 0.99.7, and resolve these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076797.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076798.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076800.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076806.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076814.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076815.html

Affected packages:
libsmi
libsmi-devel
wireshark
wireshark-gnome

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0058

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.072 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.9%