[ GLSA 200911-05 ] Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200911-05)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: November 25, 2009
Bug(s): #285280, #290710
ID: 200911-05

Synopsis


Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing for
the remote execution of arbitrary code, or Denial of Service.


Background


Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.


Affected Packages

Package: net-analyzer/wireshark
Vulnerable: < 1.2.3
Unaffected: >= 1.2.3
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description


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.


Resolution


All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: