Issued:
2014-03-31
Updated:
2014-03-31

RHSA-2014:0341 - 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 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 network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Multiple flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2013-3559, CVE-2013-4083, CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2299)

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-2012-5595, CVE-2012-5598, CVE-2012-5599, CVE-2012-5600, CVE-2012-6056, CVE-2012-6060, CVE-2012-6061, CVE-2012-6062, CVE-2013-3557, CVE-2013-4081, CVE-2013-4927, CVE-2013-4931, CVE-2013-4932, CVE-2013-4933, CVE-2013-4934, CVE-2013-4935, CVE-2013-5721, CVE-2013-7112)

All Wireshark users are advised to 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 https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm
  • wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ia64.rpm
  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm
  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
  • wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm
  • wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm
  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.src.rpm
  • wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
  • wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-6.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.s390x.rpm
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-6.el5_10.i386.rpm
  • wireshark-1.0.15-6.el5_10.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information