Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

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 malicious dump file. (CVE-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191, CVE-2015-3810, CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8714, CVE-2015-0562, CVE-2015-0563, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-3182, CVE-2015-6243, CVE-2015-6244, CVE-2015-6245, CVE-2015-6246, CVE-2015-6248)

The CVE-2015-3182 issue was discovered by Martin Zember of Red Hat.

The wireshark packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.10.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1238676)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* Prior to this update, when using the tshark utility to capture packets over the interface, tshark failed to create output files in the .pcap format even if it was specified using the '-F' option. This bug has been fixed, the '-F' option is now honored, and the result saved in the .pcap format as expected. (BZ#1227199)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement :

* Previously, wireshark included only microseconds in the .pcapng format. With this update, wireshark supports nanosecond time stamp precision to allow for more accurate time stamps. (BZ#1213339)

All wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Wireshark was updated to version 1.10.13 fixing bugs and security issues :

The following security issues have been fixed.

  - The WCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-07     CVE-2015-2188 [bnc#920696]

  - The pcapng file parser could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-08     CVE-2015-2189 [bnc#920697]

  - The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    wnpa-sec-2015-10 CVE-2015-2191 [bnc#920699] Further bug     fixes and updated protocol support are listed in :

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.13.html

The version of Wireshark installed remote Windows host is 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, or 1.12.x prior to 1.12.4. It is, therefore, affected by denial of service vulnerabilities in the following items :

    - ATN-CPDLC dissector (CVE-2015-2187)
    - WCP dissector (CVE-2015-2188)
    - pcapng file parser (CVE-2015-2189)
    - LLDP dissector (CVE-2015-2190)
    - TNEF dissector (CVE-2015-2191)
    - SCSI OSD dissector (CVE-2015-2192)

A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause Wireshark to crash or consume excessive CPU resources, either by injecting a specially crafted packet onto the wire or by convincing a user to read a malformed packet trace or PCAP file.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2393 advisory.

    - Related: CVE-2015-6244
    - Resolves: CVE-2015-3182
    - Resolves: CVE-2015-6243                 CVE-2015-6244                 CVE-2015-6245                 CVE-2015-6246                 CVE-2015-6248
    - Resolves: CVE-2015-3810                 CVE-2015-3813

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Wireshark was updated to 1.10.13 on openSUSE 13.1 to fix bugs and security issues. Wireshark was updated to 1.12.4 on openSUSE 13.2 to fix bugs and security issues.

The following security issues were fixed in 1.10.13 :

  - The WCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-07     CVE-2015-2188 [bnc#920696]

  - The pcapng file parser could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-08     CVE-2015-2189 [bnc#920697]

  - The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    wnpa-sec-2015-10 CVE-2015-2191 [bnc#920699]

  - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed     in:
    https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1     3.html

The following security issues were fixed in 1.12.4 :

  - The following security issues were fixed :

  - The ATN-CPDLC dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-06     CVE-2015-2187 [bnc#920695]

  - The WCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-07     CVE-2015-2188 [bnc#920696]

  - The pcapng file parser could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-08     CVE-2015-2189 [bnc#920697]

  - The LLDP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-09     CVE-2015-2190 [bnc#920698]

  - The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    wnpa-sec-2015-10 CVE-2015-2191 [bnc#920699]

  - The SCSI OSD dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    wnpa-sec-2015-11 CVE-2015-2192 [bnc#920700]

  - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed     in:
    https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.4     .html

The following vulnerabilities were discovered in the Squeeze's Wireshark version :

CVE-2015-2188 The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2015-0564 Wireshark could crash while decypting TLS/SSL sessions CVE-2015-0562 The DEC DNA Routing Protocol dissector could crash CVE-2014-8714 TN5250 infinite loops CVE-2014-8713 NCP crashes CVE-2014-8712 NCP crashes CVE-2014-8711 AMQP crash CVE-2014-8710 SigComp UDVM buffer overflow CVE-2014-6432 Sniffer file parser crash CVE-2014-6431 Sniffer file parser crash CVE-2014-6430 Sniffer file parser crash CVE-2014-6429 Sniffer file parser crash CVE-2014-6428 SES dissector crash CVE-2014-6423 MEGACO dissector infinite loop CVE-2014-6422 RTP dissector crash

Since back-porting upstream patches to 1.2.11-6+squeeze15 did not fix all the outstanding issues and some issues are not even tracked publicly the LTS Team decided to sync squeeze-lts's wireshark package with wheezy-security to provide the best possible security support.

Note that upgrading Wireshark from 1.2.x to 1.8.x introduces several backward-incompatible changes in package structure, shared library API/ABI, availability of dissectors and in syntax of command line parameters.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
87156	CentOS 7 : wireshark (CESA-2015:2393)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	12/2/2015	1/4/2021	medium
82523	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : wireshark (SAT Patch Number 10444)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/2/2015	1/6/2021	medium
81672	Wireshark 1.10.x < 1.10.13 / 1.12.x < 1.12.4 Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	3/6/2015	3/30/2026	medium
87038	Oracle Linux 7 : wireshark (ELSA-2015-2393)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/24/2015	4/29/2025	medium
81869	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-226)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/17/2015	1/19/2021	medium
83002	Debian DLA-198-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	4/23/2015	1/11/2021	medium

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