Synopsis :

The remote SuSE system is missing the security patch ethereal-3885

Description :

Various security problems were fixed in the wireshark
0.99.6 release, which were backported to ethereal
(predecessor of wireshark):

CVE-2007-3389: Wireshark allowed remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (crash) via a crafted chunked encoding
in an HTTP response, possibly related to a zero-length
payload.

CVE-2007-3390: Wireshark when running on certain systems,
allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via crafted iSeries capture files that trigger a
SIGTRAP.

CVE-2007-3391: Wireshark allowed remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (memory consumption) via a malformed
DCP ETSI packet that triggers an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-3392: Wireshark allowed remote attackers to cause
a denial of service via malformed (1) SSL or (2) MMS
packets that trigger an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-3393: Off-by-one error in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector
in Wireshark allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (crash) via crafted DHCP-over-DOCSIS packets.

Solution :

Install the ethereal-3885 security patch by using 'yast', for example.

Risk factor :

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.8
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Public Exploit Available : true