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[ GLSA 200911-05 ] Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities


From: Alex Legler <a3li () gentoo org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:39:04 +0100

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200911-05
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: November 25, 2009
      Bugs: #285280, #290710
        ID: 200911-05

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Synopsis
========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing
for the remote execution of arbitrary code, or Denial of Service.

Background
==========

Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages
=================

    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     Package                 /  Vulnerable  /               Unaffected
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
  1  net-analyzer/wireshark       < 1.2.3                     >= 1.2.3

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark:

* Ryan Giobbi reported an integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c
  (CVE-2009-3829).

* The vendor reported multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the
  Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP dissectors (CVE-2009-2560), in the
  OpcUa dissector (CVE-2009-3241), in packet.c in the GSM A RR
  dissector (CVE-2009-3242), in the TLS dissector (CVE-2009-3243), in
  the Paltalk dissector (CVE-2009-3549), in the DCERPC/NT dissector
  (CVE-2009-3550), and in the dissect_negprot_response() function in
  packet-smb.c in the SMB dissector (CVE-2009-3551).

Impact
======

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted "erf"
file using Wireshark, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the application. A remote
attacker could furthermore send specially crafted packets on a network
being monitored by Wireshark or entice a user to open a malformed
packet trace file using Wireshark, possibly resulting in 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 ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.2.3"

References
==========

  [ 1 ] CVE-2009-2560
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2560
  [ 2 ] CVE-2009-3241
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3241
  [ 3 ] CVE-2009-3242
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3242
  [ 4 ] CVE-2009-3243
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3243
  [ 5 ] CVE-2009-3549
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3549
  [ 6 ] CVE-2009-3550
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3550
  [ 7 ] CVE-2009-3551
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3551
  [ 8 ] CVE-2009-3829
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3829

Availability
============

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

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-05.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
security () gentoo org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2009 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

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