Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0890 :

Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-3146)

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 malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-1070, CVE-2008-1071, CVE-2008-1072, CVE-2008-1561, CVE-2008-1562, CVE-2008-1563, CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145, CVE-2008-3932, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934)

Additionally, this update changes the default Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration to always prompt for the root password before each start of Wireshark. This avoids unintentionally running Wireshark with root privileges.

Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.3, and resolve these issues.

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-3146)

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 malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-1070, CVE-2008-1071, CVE-2008-1072, CVE-2008-1561, CVE-2008-1562, CVE-2008-1563, CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145, CVE-2008-3932, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934)

Additionally, this update changes the default Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration to always prompt for the root password before each start of Wireshark. This avoids unintentionally running Wireshark with root privileges.

A few vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark, that could cause it to crash or hang under certain conditions.

This update provides Wireshark 1.0.0, which is not vulnerable to the issues.

Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-3146)

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 malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-1070, CVE-2008-1071, CVE-2008-1072, CVE-2008-1561, CVE-2008-1562, CVE-2008-1563, CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145, CVE-2008-3932, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934)

Additionally, this update changes the default Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration to always prompt for the root password before each start of Wireshark. This avoids unintentionally running Wireshark with root privileges.

Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.3, and resolve these issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200805-05 (Wireshark: Denial of Service)

    Errors exist in:
    the X.509sat dissector because of an uninitialized variable and the     Roofnet dissector because a NULL pointer may be passed to the     g_vsnprintf() function (CVE-2008-1561).
    the LDAP dissector because a NULL pointer may be passed to the     ep_strdup_printf() function (CVE-2008-1562).
    the SCCP dissector because it does not reset a pointer once the packet     has been processed (CVE-2008-1563).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a     malformed packet or enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace     file, causing a Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    Disable the X.509sat, Roofnet, LDAP, and SCCP dissectors.

Upgrade to 1.0.0 fixes several security flaws (wireshark crashes, see BZ references).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple flaws in wireshark could lead to crashes when certain packets are processed (CVE-2008-1561,CVE-2008-1562,CVE-2008-1563)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67748	Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (ELSA-2008-0890)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
60479	Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
36552	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2008:091)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
34328	RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2008:0890)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
34326	CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (CESA-2008:0890)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
32153	GLSA-200805-05 : Wireshark: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
31829	Fedora 8 : wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc8 (2008-3040)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
31817	Fedora 7 : wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc7 (2008-2941)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
31778	openSUSE 10 Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-5145)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-1561

high

Tenable Plugins

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critical

medium

critical

critical

medium

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