GLSA 201110-02: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:	normal
Title:	Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	10/09/2011
Bugs:	#323859, #330479, #339401, #346191, #350551, #354197, #357237, #363895, #369683, #373961, #381551, #383823, #386179
ID:	201110-02

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code, or a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/wireshark	< 1.4.9	>= 1.4.9	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets on a network being monitored by Wireshark, entice a user to open a malformed packet trace file using Wireshark, or deploy a specially crafted Lua script for use by Wireshark, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code, or a Denial of Service condition.

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 ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.4.9"
    

References

• CVE-2010-2283
• CVE-2010-2284
• CVE-2010-2285
• CVE-2010-2286
• CVE-2010-2287
• CVE-2010-2992
• CVE-2010-2993
• CVE-2010-2994
• CVE-2010-2995
• CVE-2010-3133
• CVE-2010-3445
• CVE-2010-4300
• CVE-2010-4301
• CVE-2010-4538
• CVE-2011-0024
• CVE-2011-0444
• CVE-2011-0445
• CVE-2011-0538
• CVE-2011-0713
• CVE-2011-1138
• CVE-2011-1139
• CVE-2011-1140
• CVE-2011-1141
• CVE-2011-1142
• CVE-2011-1143
• CVE-2011-1590
• CVE-2011-1591
• CVE-2011-1592
• CVE-2011-1956
• CVE-2011-1957
• CVE-2011-1958
• CVE-2011-1959
• CVE-2011-2174
• CVE-2011-2175
• CVE-2011-2597
• CVE-2011-2698
• CVE-2011-3266
• CVE-2011-3360
• CVE-2011-3482
• CVE-2011-3483

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201110-02.xml

Concerns?

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License

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