Issued:

2011-03-21

Updated:

2011-03-21

RHSA-2011:0370 - Moderate: wireshark security update

Synopsis

Moderate: wireshark security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in Wireshark. If Wireshark opened a specially-crafted capture file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2011-0024)

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-2010-3445, CVE-2011-0538, CVE-2011-1139, CVE-2011-1140, CVE-2011-1141, CVE-2011-1143)

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.src.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.ia64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.src.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.s390.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.i386.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.s390.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.ia64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-2.el4.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.ia64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-2.el4.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 639486
• This content is not included.BZ - 671331
• This content is not included.BZ - 676232
• This content is not included.BZ - 681748
• This content is not included.BZ - 681754
• This content is not included.BZ - 681756
• This content is not included.BZ - 681760

CVEs

• CVE-2010-3445
• CVE-2011-1141
• CVE-2011-1140
• CVE-2011-0538
• CVE-2011-1139
• CVE-2011-1143
• CVE-2011-0024

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.