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libsmi, wireshark security update

Description

**CentOS Errata and Security Advisory** CESA-2008:0059 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-2007-6114, 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-2007-3389, CVE-2007-3390, CVE-2007-3391, CVE-2007-3392, CVE-2007-3392, CVE-2007-3393, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121, 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/064106.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/064107.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/064112.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/064117.html **Affected packages:** libsmi libsmi-devel wireshark wireshark-gnome **Upstream details at:** https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0059


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 libsmi-devel 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 libsmi-devel 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 libsmi-devel 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 libsmi-devel 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 libsmi 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 libsmi-devel 0.4.5-3.el3
CentOS 3 wireshark 0.99.7-EL3.1
CentOS 3 wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-EL3.1

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