The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

Wireshark was updated to version 1.4.4 to fix several security issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201110-02 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets on a network       being monitored by Wireshark, entice a user to open a malformed packet       trace file using Wireshark, or deploy a specially crafted Lua script for       use by Wireshark, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code,       or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Wireshark was updated to version 1.4.4 to fix several security issues

- Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -     1.2.14-1

    - upgrade to 1.2.14

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1       4.html

    - Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -       1.2.13-2

    - fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)

    - Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
      - 1.2.13-1

    - upgrade to 1.2.13

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1       3.html

    - Mon Sep 13 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
      - 1.2.11-1

    - upgrade to 1.2.11

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1       1.html

    - Resolves: #632539

    - Tue Aug 24 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
      - 1.2.10-1

    - upgrade to 1.2.10

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1       0.html

    - Resolves: #625940 CVE-2010-2287 CVE-2010-2286       CVE-2010-2284 CVE-2010-2283

    - Mon May 17 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> -       1.2.8-3

    - removing traling bracket from python_sitearch       (#592391)

    - Fri May 7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> -       1.2.8-2

    - add libtool patch

    - Fri May 7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> -       1.2.8-1

    - use sitearch instead of sitelib to avoid pyo and pyc       conflicts

    - upgrade to 1.2.8

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.8       .html

    - rebuild with GeoIP support (needs to be turned on in       IP protocol preferences)

    - bring back -pie

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.

- Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -     1.4.2-3

    - upgrade to 1.4.3

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.3       .html

    - Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -       1.4.2-2

    - fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)

    - Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
      - 1.4.2-1

    - upgrade to 1.4.2

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2       .html

    - Mon Nov 1 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -       1.4.1-2

    - temporarily disable zlib until       https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49       55 is resolved (#643461)

  - Fri Oct 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -     1.4.1-1

    - upgrade to 1.4.1

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1       .html

    - Own the %{_libdir}/wireshark dir (#644508)

    - associate *.pcap files with wireshark (#641163)

    - Tue Oct 5 2010 jkeating - 1.4.0-2.1

    - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757

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.

The installed version of Wireshark is 1.2.x less than 1.2.14 or 1.4.x less than 1.4.3.  Such versions are affected by the following vulnerabilities :
  - An error exists in the MAC-LTE dissector that allows a     series of malformed packets to cause a buffer overflow.
    (5530)

  - An error exists in the ENTTEC dissector that allows a     series of malformed packets to cause a buffer overflow.
    (5539)

  - An error exists in the ASN.1 BER dissector that allows     a series of malformed packets to make Wireshark exit     prematurely. (5537)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
57261	SuSE 10 Security Update : wireshark (ZYPP Patch Number 7438)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
56426	GLSA-201110-02 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
53319	SuSE 10 Security Update : wireshark (ZYPP Patch Number 7439)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
53315	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : wireshark (SAT Patch Number 4267)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
51854	Fedora 13 : wireshark-1.2.14-1.fc13 (2011-0460)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
51853	Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.3-1.fc14 (2011-0450)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
51458	Wireshark < 1.2.14 / 1.4.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high

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