metadata/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml

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<glsa id="200809-17">
  <title>Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in
    Wireshark.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wireshark</product>
  <announced>September 25, 2008</announced>
  <revised>September 25, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>236515</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/wireshark" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The following vulnerabilities were reported:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>
    Multiple buffer overflows in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3146).
    </li>
    <li>
    Infinite loop in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3932).
    </li>
    <li>
    Invalid read in the tvb_uncompress() function when processing zlib
    compressed data (CVE-2008-3933).
    </li>
    <li>
    Unspecified error when processing Textronix .rf5 files
    (CVE-2008-3934).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending
    specially crafted packets on a network being monitored by Wireshark or
    by enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace file, causing a
    Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3146">CVE-2008-3146</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3932">CVE-2008-3932</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3933">CVE-2008-3933</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3934">CVE-2008-3934</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:39:05 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:29:18 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:30:10 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>