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| From: | Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o> |
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| Subject: | [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200607-09 ] Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:36:53 |
| Message-Id: | 200607251601.27915.jaervosz@gentoo.org |
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| 2 | Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-09 |
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| 4 | http://security.gentoo.org/ |
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| 6 | |
| 7 | Severity: High |
| 8 | Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 9 | Date: July 25, 2006 |
| 10 | Bugs: #140856 |
| 11 | ID: 200607-09 |
| 12 | |
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| 14 | |
| 15 | Synopsis |
| 16 | ======== |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is vulnerable to several |
| 19 | security issues, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code |
| 20 | by a remote attacker. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Background |
| 23 | ========== |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a popular network protocol |
| 26 | analyzer. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Affected packages |
| 29 | ================= |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 32 | Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
| 33 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 34 | 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 0.99.2 >= 0.99.2 |
| 35 | 2 net-analyzer/ethereal <= 0.99.0-r1 Vulnerable! |
| 36 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 37 | NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate |
| 38 | to another package if one is available or wait for the |
| 39 | existing packages to be marked stable by their |
| 40 | architecture maintainers. |
| 41 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 42 | 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
| 43 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Description |
| 46 | =========== |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of |
| 49 | exploits, including off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, format string |
| 50 | overflows and an infinite loop. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | Impact |
| 53 | ====== |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Running an affected version of Wireshark or Ethereal could allow for a |
| 56 | remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's computer by |
| 57 | sending specially crafted packets. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | Workaround |
| 60 | ========== |
| 61 | |
| 62 | There is no known workaround at this time. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | Resolution |
| 65 | ========== |
| 66 | |
| 67 | All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| 68 | |
| 69 | # emerge --sync |
| 70 | # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.2" |
| 71 | |
| 72 | All Ethereal users should migrate to Wireshark: |
| 73 | |
| 74 | # emerge --sync |
| 75 | # emerge --ask --unmerge net-analyzer/ethereal |
| 76 | # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.2" |
| 77 | |
| 78 | To keep the [saved] configuration from Ethereal and reuse it with |
| 79 | Wireshark: |
| 80 | |
| 81 | # mv ~/.ethereal ~/.wireshark |
| 82 | |
| 83 | References |
| 84 | ========== |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [ 1 ] Wireshark wnpa-sec-2006-01 |
| 87 | http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-01.html |
| 88 | [ 2 ] CVE-2006-3627 |
| 89 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3627 |
| 90 | [ 3 ] CVE-2006-3628 |
| 91 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3628 |
| 92 | [ 4 ] CVE-2006-3629 |
| 93 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3629 |
| 94 | [ 5 ] CVE-2006-3630 |
| 95 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3630 |
| 96 | [ 6 ] CVE-2006-3631 |
| 97 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3631 |
| 98 | [ 7 ] CVE-2006-3632 |
| 99 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3632 |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Availability |
| 102 | ============ |
| 103 | |
| 104 | This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
| 105 | the Gentoo Security Website: |
| 106 | |
| 107 | http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-09.xml |
| 108 | |
| 109 | Concerns? |
| 110 | ========= |
| 111 | |
| 112 | Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
| 113 | confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
| 114 | importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
| 115 | security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
| 116 | http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | License |
| 119 | ======= |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
| 122 | belongs to its owner(s). |
| 123 | |
| 124 | The contents of this document are licensed under the |
| 125 | Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |