The SNMP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 through 0.99.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0890 advisory.

    [1.0.3-4.0.1.el5_2]
    - Add oracle-ocfs2-network.patch

    [1.0.3-4]
    - fix pam session file, wireshark requires root pswd everytime its started

    [1.0.3-3]
    - fix pie flags

    [1.0.3-1]
    - upgrade to 1.0.3
    - fixes several security issues
    - Resolves: #461569

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.

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 consume excessive memory under certain conditions.

This update rovides Wireshark 0.99.8 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.

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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200803-32 (Wireshark: Denial of Service)

    Multiple unspecified errors exist in the SCTP, SNMP, and TFTP     dissectors.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending a     malformed packet.
  Workaround :

    Disable the SCTP, SNMP, and TFTP dissectors.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67748	Oracle Linux 5 : wireshark (ELSA-2008-0890)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
60479	Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
36386	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2008:057)	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
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
31672	GLSA-200803-32 : Wireshark: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-1071

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

medium

critical

critical

medium

medium

medium