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.

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2015-660:01 advisory.

    Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
    This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering     library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and     documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged     separately to GTK  package.
    Security issues fixed with this release:
    CVE-2014-8710     The decompress_sigcomp_message function in epan/sigcomp-udvm.c in the     SigComp UDVM dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.11 allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and     application crash) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2014-8711     Multiple integer overflows in epan/dissectors/packet-amqp.c in the     AMQP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.11 and 1.12.x before     1.12.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) via a crafted amqp_0_10 PDU in a packet.
    CVE-2014-8712     The build_expert_data function in epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc     in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.11 and 1.12.x     before 1.12.2 does not properly initialize a data structure, which     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application     crash) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2014-8713     Stack-based buffer overflow in the build_expert_data function in     epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.11 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2014-8714     The dissect_write_structured_field function in     epan/dissectors/packet-tn5250.c in the TN5250 dissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.11 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-0562     Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in     epan/dissectors/packet-dec-dnart.c in the DEC DNA Routing Protocol     dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3     allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application     crash) via a crafted packet, related to the use of packet-scope memory     instead of pinfo-scope memory.
    CVE-2015-0563     epan/dissectors/packet-smtp.c in the SMTP dissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 uses an incorrect     length value for certain string-append operations, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-0564     Buffer underflow in the ssl_decrypt_record function in     epan/dissectors/packet-ssl-utils.c in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12     and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly     handled during decryption of an SSL session.
    CVE-2015-2188     epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x     before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a     data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted     packet that is improperly handled during decompression.
    CVE-2015-2189     Off-by-one error in the pcapng_read function in wiretap/pcapng.c in     the pcapng file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x     before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via an invalid Interface     Statistics Block (ISB) interface ID in a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-2191     Integer overflow in the dissect_tnef function in     epan/dissectors/packet-tnef.c in the TNEF dissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted length     field in a packet.
    CVE-2015-3182
    ** RESERVED **     This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that     will use it when announcing a new security problem.  When the     candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be     provided.
    CVE-2015-3810     epan/dissectors/packet-websocket.c in the WebSocket dissector in     Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.5 uses a recursive algorithm, which     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)     via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-3811     epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x     before 1.10.14 and 1.12.x before 1.12.5 improperly refers to     previously processed bytes, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2188.
    CVE-2015-3812     Multiple memory leaks in the x11_init_protocol function in     epan/dissectors/packet-x11.c in the X11 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x     before 1.10.14 and 1.12.x before 1.12.5 allow remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-3813     The fragment_add_work function in epan/reassemble.c in the     packet-reassembly feature in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.5 does not     properly determine the defragmentation state in a case of an     insufficient snapshot length, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-6243     The dissector-table implementation in epan/packet.c in Wireshark     1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles table searches for empty strings,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the (1)     dissector_get_string_handle and (2)     dissector_get_default_string_handle functions.
    CVE-2015-6244     The dissect_zbee_secure function in     epan/dissectors/packet-zbee-security.c in the ZigBee dissector in     Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 improperly relies on length fields     contained in packet data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-6245     epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_rlcmac.c in the GSM RLC/MAC dissector in     Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 uses incorrect integer data types,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-6246     The dissect_wa_payload function in epan/dissectors/packet-waveagent.c     in the WaveAgent dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7     mishandles large tag values, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
    CVE-2015-6248     The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in     epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not check whether     the expected amount of data is available, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     crafted packet.
    Fixed bugs:
    * 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.
    Enhancements:
    * 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.

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

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

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for WCP, pcapng and TNEF, which could result in denial of service.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201510-03 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

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

    A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Updated wireshark package fixes security vulnerabilies :

The WCP dissector could crash (CVE-2015-2188).

The pcapng file parser could crash (CVE-2015-2189).

The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop (CVE-2015-2191).

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2393 advisory.

    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 ember 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

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 wireshark packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.10.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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
289991	MiracleLinux 7 : wireshark-1.10.14-7.el7 (AXSA:2015-660:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/16/2026	1/16/2026	medium
82511	Debian DSA-3210-1 : wireshark - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	4/2/2015	1/11/2021	medium
86688	GLSA-201510-03 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	11/2/2015	1/11/2021	medium
82458	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2015:183)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	3/31/2015	1/14/2021	medium
86988	RHEL 7 : wireshark (RHSA-2015:2393)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/20/2015	11/4/2024	medium
87578	Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	12/22/2015	1/14/2021	medium
82523	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : wireshark (SAT Patch Number 10444)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/2/2015	1/6/2021	medium
87038	Oracle Linux 7 : wireshark (ELSA-2015-2393)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/24/2015	4/29/2025	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
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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