| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:0058.
Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was
previously known as Ethereal.
Several flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark if it read a malformed
packet off the network. (CVE-2007-6112, CVE-2007-6114, CVE-2007-6115,
CVE-2007-6117)
Several denial of service bugs were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could
crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.
(CVE-2007-6111, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6116, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6119,
CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121, CVE-2007-6438, CVE-2007-6439, CVE-2007-6441,
CVE-2007-6450, CVE-2007-6451)
As well, Wireshark switched from using net-snmp to libsmi, which is
included in this errata.
Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Wireshark version 0.99.7, and resolve these issues.
Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-0.99.7.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score:
10.0
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