New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities in Ethereal are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.

In May 2006, Ethereal changed its name to Wireshark. This update deprecates the Ethereal packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 in favor of the supported Wireshark packages.

Several denial of service bugs were found in Ethereal's protocol dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3627, CVE-2006-3629, CVE-2006-3631)

Several buffer overflow bugs were found in Ethereal's ANSI MAP, NCP NMAS, and NDPStelnet dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3630, CVE-2006-3632)

Several format string bugs were found in Ethereal's Checkpoint FW-1, MQ, XML, and NTP dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network.
(CVE-2006-3628)

Users of Ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.2, which is not vulnerable to these issues

This update fixes several security related bugs ranging from crashes to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2006-3627, CVE-2006-3628, CVE-2006-3629, CVE-2006-3630, CVE-2006-3631, CVE-2006-3632)

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) network analyzer. These issues have been corrected in Wireshark version 0.99.2 which is provided with this update.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200607-09 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of     exploits, including off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, format string     overflows and an infinite loop.
  Impact :

    Running an affected version of Wireshark or Ethereal could allow for a     remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's computer by     sending specially crafted packets.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update fixes several security related bugs ranging from crashes to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2006-3627 / CVE-2006-3628 / CVE-2006-3629 / CVE-2006-3630 / CVE-2006-3631 / CVE-2006-3632)

Versions affected: 0.8.16 up to and including 0.99.0 Details Description Wireshark 0.99.2 fixes the following vulnerabilities :

  - The GSM BSSMAP dissector could crash. Versions affected:
    0.10.11. CVE: CVE-2006-3627

Ilja van Sprundel discovered the following vulnerabilities :

  - The ANSI MAP dissector was vulnerable to a format string     overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.0. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

  - The Checkpoint FW-1 dissector was vulnerable to a format     string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.10. CVE:
    CVE-2006-3628

  - The MQ dissector was vulnerable to a format string     overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.4. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

  - The XML dissector was vulnerable to a format string     overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

  - The MOUNT dissector could attempt to allocate large     amounts of memory. Versions affected: 0.9.4. CVE:
    CVE-2006-3629

  - The NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors were susceptible to     off-by-one errors. Versions affected: 0.9.7. CVE:
    CVE-2006-3630

  - The NTP dissector was vulnerable to a format string     overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628

  - The SSH dissector was vulnerable to an infinite loop.
    Versions affected: 0.9.10. CVE: CVE-2006-3631

  - The NFS dissector may have been susceptible to a buffer     overflow. Versions affected: 0.8.16. CVE: CVE-2006-3632

Impact It may be possible to make Ethereal crash, use up available memory, or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. Resolution Upgrade to Wireshark 0.99.2.

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.

New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available. 

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. 

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.4, which is not vulnerable to these issues.


From Red Hat Security Advisory 2006:0726 :

Several flaws were found in Wireshark's HTTP, WBXML, LDAP, and XOT protocol dissectors.  Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.  (CVE-2006-4805, CVE-2006-5468, CVE-2006-5469, CVE-2006-5740)

A single NULL byte heap based buffer overflow was found in Wireshark's MIME Multipart dissector.  Wireshark could crash or possibly execute arbitrary arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark.  (CVE-2006-4574)


From Red Hat Security Advisory 2006:0658 :

Bugs were found in Wireshark's SCSI and SSCOP protocol dissectors. Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.  (CVE-2006-4330, CVE-2006-4333)

An off-by-one bug was found in the IPsec ESP decryption preference parser.  Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.  (CVE-2006-4331)


From Red Hat Security Advisory 2006:0602 :

In May 2006, Ethereal changed its name to Wireshark.  This update deprecates the Ethereal packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 in favor of the supported Wireshark packages. 

Several denial of service bugs were found in Ethereal's protocol dissectors.  It was possible for Ethereal to crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.  (CVE-2006-3627, CVE-2006-3629, CVE-2006-3631)

Several buffer overflow bugs were found in Ethereal's ANSI MAP, NCP NMAS, and NDPStelnet dissectors.  It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3630, CVE-2006-3632)

Several format string bugs were found in Ethereal's Checkpoint FW-1, MQ, XML, and NTP dissectors.  It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3628)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
22238	CentOS 3 / 4 : wireshark (CESA-2006:0602)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	8/21/2006	1/4/2021	critical
27205	openSUSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ethereal-1932)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/17/2007	1/14/2021	critical
23879	Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDKSA-2006:128)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	12/16/2006	1/6/2021	critical
22107	GLSA-200607-09 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	7/28/2006	1/6/2021	critical
29418	SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 1930)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/13/2007	1/14/2021	critical
24160	Fedora Core 5 : wireshark-0.99.2-fc5.2 (2006-860)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/17/2007	1/11/2021	medium
67418	Oracle Linux 4 : wireshark (ELSA-2006-0726 / ELSA-2006-0658 / ELSA-2006-0602)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	1/14/2021	critical
22243	RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : wireshark (RHSA-2006:0602)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	8/21/2006	1/14/2021	critical

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