Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark 1.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace and is processed by the (1) Bluetooth L2CAP, (2) RADIUS, or (3) MIOP dissector. NOTE: it was later reported that the RADIUS issue also affects 0.10.13 through 1.0.9.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0360 :

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

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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.

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

An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2 dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2009-4377)

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark LWRES dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2010-0304)

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-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829)

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.11, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2 dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2009-4377)

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark LWRES dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2010-0304)

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-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829)

All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Note: libsmi was added to SL4 and SL5 because it was a new dependency for wireshark and older versions of SL4 and SL5 did not have libsmi.

Update of wireshark to fix multiple vulnerabilities :

  - The Paltalk dissector could crash on alignment-sensitive     processors. (CVE-2009-3549: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0     (MEDIUM))

  - The DCERPC/NT dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-3550:
    CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM))

  - The SMB dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-3551: CVSS v2     Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM))

  - The RADIUS dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-2560: CVSS     v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM))

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0360 advisory.

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

    An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2     dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a     malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as     the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2009-4377)

    Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark LWRES dissector.
    If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious     dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user     running Wireshark. (CVE-2010-0304)

    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-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563,     CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829)

    Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain     Wireshark version 1.0.11, and resolve these issues. 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.

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

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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.

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

An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2 dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2009-4377)

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark LWRES dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2010-0304)

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-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829)

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.11, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2009-2560     A NULL pointer dereference was found in the RADIUS     dissector.

  - CVE-2009-3550     A NULL pointer dereference was found in the DCERP/NT     dissector.

  - CVE-2009-3829     An integer overflow was discovered in the ERF parser.

This update also includes fixes for three minor issues (CVE-2008-1829, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-3241 ), which were scheduled for the next stable point update. Also CVE-2009-1268 was fixed for Etch. Since this security update was issued prior to the release of the point update, the fixes were included.

Version upgrade of wireshark fix multiple vulnerabilities :

  - The Paltalk dissector could crash on alignment-sensitive     processors. (CVE-2009-3549: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0     (MEDIUM))

  - The DCERPC/NT dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-3550:
    CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM))

  - The SMB dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-3551: CVSS v2     Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM))

  - The RADIUS dissector could crash. (CVE-2009-2560: CVSS     v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM))

  - Fix for an integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c that     allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a     crafted ERF file. (CVE-2009-3829). (CVSS v2 Base Score:
    9.3 (HIGH))

Rebased to 1.2.x, fixing several security flaws, see the security advisory for details:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html

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.

Version upgrade of wireshark fix multiple vulnerabilities :

  - CVE-2009-3549: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The     Paltalk dissector could crash on alignment-sensitive     processors.

  - CVE-2009-3550: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) The     DCERPC/NT dissector could crash.

  - CVE-2009-3551: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The SMB     dissector could crash.

  - CVE-2009-2560: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The     RADIUS dissector could crash.

  - CVE-2009-3829 CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (HIGH) Fix for an     integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c that allowed remote     attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ERF     file. This does not affect SLE products.

This is an update of wireshark to fix multiple vulnerabilities :

  - CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The Paltalk dissector     could crash on alignment-sensitive processors.
    (CVE-2009-3549)

  - CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) The DCERPC/NT dissector     could crash. (CVE-2009-3550)

  - CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The SMB dissector could     crash. (CVE-2009-3551)

  - CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (MEDIUM) The RADIUS dissector     could crash. (CVE-2009-2560)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200911-05 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark:
    Ryan Giobbi reported an integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c     (CVE-2009-3829).
    The vendor reported multiple unspecified     vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP dissectors     (CVE-2009-2560), in the OpcUa dissector (CVE-2009-3241), in packet.c in     the GSM A RR dissector (CVE-2009-3242), in the TLS dissector     (CVE-2009-3243), in the Paltalk dissector (CVE-2009-3549), in the     DCERPC/NT dissector (CVE-2009-3550), and in the     dissect_negprot_response() function in packet-smb.c in the SMB     dissector (CVE-2009-3551).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted 'erf'     file using Wireshark, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary     code with the privileges of the user running the application. A remote     attacker could furthermore send specially crafted packets on a network     being monitored by Wireshark or entice a user to open a malformed     packet trace file using Wireshark, possibly resulting in a Denial of     Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Update to Wireshark 1.2.2 fixing multiple security issues:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html * The OpcUa dissector could use excessive CPU and memory. (Bug 3986) Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 1.0.8, 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 * The GSM A RR dissector could crash. (Bug 3893) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 * The TLS dissector could crash on some platforms. (Bug 4008) Versions affected:
1.2.0 to 1.2.1 http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html * The AFS dissector could crash. (Bug 3564) Versions affected: 0.9.2 to 1.2.0

  - The Infiniband dissector could crash on some platforms.
    Versions affected: 1.0.6 to 1.2.0 * The IPMI dissector     could overrun a buffer. (Bug 3559) Versions affected:
    1.2.0 * The Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash. (Bug     3572) Versions affected: 1.2.0 * The RADIUS dissector     could crash. (Bug 3578) Versions affected: 1.2.0 * The     MIOP dissector could crash. (Bug 3652) Versions     affected: 1.2.0 * The sFlow dissector could use     excessive CPU and memory. (Bug 3570) Versions affected:
    1.2.0 (Issues from wnpa-sec-2009-04 does not affect     users of Wireshark 1.2.1 packages from updates-testing.)

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-200909-16 (Wireshark: Denial of Service)

    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark:
    A     buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector related to an array index error     (CVE-2009-2559).
    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the     Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP dissectors (CVE-2009-2560).
    An unspecified vulnerability in the sFlow dissector     (CVE-2009-2561).
    An unspecified vulnerability in the AFS     dissector (CVE-2009-2562).
    An unspecified vulnerability in the     Infiniband dissector when running on unspecified platforms     (CVE-2009-2563).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending     specially crafted packets on a network being monitored by Wireshark or     by enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace file to cause a     Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in wireshark package, which could lead to application crash via radius, infiniband and afs dissectors (CVE-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563).

This update provides a fix for those vulnerabilities.

The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is affected by multiple issues :

  - The IPMI dissector could overrun a buffer. (Bug 3559)

  - The AFS dissector could crash. (Bug 3564)

  - The Infiniband dissector could crash on some platforms.

  - The Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash. (Bug 3572)

  - The RADIUS dissector could crash. (Bug 3578)

  - The MIOP dissector could crash. (Bug 3652)

  - The sFlow dissector could use excessive CPU and memory.
    (Bug 3570)

These vulnerabilities could result in a denial of service, or possibly arbitrary code execution.  A remote attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted capture file.  Additionally, if Wireshark is running in promiscuous mode, one of these issues could be exploited remotely (from the same network segment).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
68032	Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (ELSA-2010-0360)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
60785	Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
49845	SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 6628)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
46301	RHEL 4 / 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2010:0360)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
45594	CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (CESA-2010:0360)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
44807	Debian DSA-1942-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
43085	SuSE 11 Security Update : wireshark (SAT Patch Number 1606)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
43015	Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10 (2009-7998)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
42958	SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 6627)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
42955	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-1600)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
42953	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-1600)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
42950	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-1600)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
42947	SuSE9 Security Update : ethereal (YOU Patch Number 12530)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
42915	GLSA-200911-05 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
42387	Fedora 11 : wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc11 (2009-9837)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
40963	GLSA-200909-16 : Wireshark: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
40498	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2009:194)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
40335	Wireshark / Ethereal 0.9.2 to 1.2.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high

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