Issued:

2015-11-19

Updated:

2015-11-19

RHSA-2015:2393 - Moderate: wireshark security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: wireshark security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security 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

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

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-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191, CVE-2015-3810, CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8714, CVE-2015-0562, CVE-2015-0563, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-3182, CVE-2015-6243, CVE-2015-6244, CVE-2015-6245, CVE-2015-6246, CVE-2015-6248)

The CVE-2015-3182 issue was discovered by Martin Žember of Red Hat.

The wireshark packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.10.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1238676)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, when using the tshark utility to capture packets over the interface, tshark failed to create output files in the .pcap format even if it was specified using the "-F" option. This bug has been fixed, the "-F" option is now honored, and the result saved in the .pcap format as expected. (BZ#1227199)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, wireshark included only microseconds in the .pcapng format. With this update, wireshark supports nanosecond time stamp precision to allow for more accurate time stamps. (BZ#1213339)

All wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.s390.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.src.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.s390.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.s390.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-gnome-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.i686.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
• wireshark-devel-1.10.14-7.el7.s390x.rpm
• wireshark-debuginfo-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc.rpm
• wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1163581
• This content is not included.BZ - 1163582
• This content is not included.BZ - 1163583
• This content is not included.BZ - 1163584
• This content is not included.BZ - 1180182
• This content is not included.BZ - 1180195
• This content is not included.BZ - 1180197
• This content is not included.BZ - 1199163
• This content is not included.BZ - 1199165
• This content is not included.BZ - 1199167
• This content is not included.BZ - 1219409
• This content is not included.BZ - 1222434
• This content is not included.BZ - 1222436
• This content is not included.BZ - 1222437
• This content is not included.BZ - 1222438
• This content is not included.BZ - 1253354
• This content is not included.BZ - 1253355
• This content is not included.BZ - 1253356
• This content is not included.BZ - 1253357
• This content is not included.BZ - 1253360
• This content is not included.BZ - 1267959

CVEs

• CVE-2014-8710
• CVE-2014-8711
• CVE-2014-8712
• CVE-2014-8713
• CVE-2014-8714
• CVE-2015-0562
• CVE-2015-0563
• CVE-2015-0564
• CVE-2015-2188
• CVE-2015-2189
• CVE-2015-2191
• CVE-2015-3182
• CVE-2015-3810
• CVE-2015-3811
• CVE-2015-3812
• CVE-2015-3813
• CVE-2015-6243
• CVE-2015-6244
• CVE-2015-6245
• CVE-2015-6246
• CVE-2015-6248

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal

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.