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GLSA-200808-04 : Wireshark: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33834

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200808-04 (Wireshark: Denial of Service)

 Multiple vulnerabilities related to memory management were discovered in the GSM SMS dissector (CVE-2008-3137), the PANA and KISMET dissectors (CVE-2008-3138), the RTMPT dissector (CVE-2008-3139), the syslog dissector (CVE-2008-3140) and the RMI dissector (CVE-2008-3141) and when reassembling fragmented packets (CVE-2008-3145).
 Impact :

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

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.2'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200808-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33834

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200808-04.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 8/7/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3139, CVE-2008-3140, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145

BID: 30020

CWE: 20, 200

GLSA: 200808-04