<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200809-17"> <title>Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service</title> <synopsis> Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">wireshark</product> <announced>2008-09-25</announced> <revised count="01">2008-09-25</revised> <bug>236515</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/wireshark" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. </p> </background> <description> <p> The following vulnerabilities were reported: </p> <ul> <li> Multiple buffer overflows in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3146). </li> <li> Infinite loop in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3932). </li> <li> Invalid read in the tvb_uncompress() function when processing zlib compressed data (CVE-2008-3933). </li> <li> Unspecified error when processing Textronix .rf5 files (CVE-2008-3934).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> 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, causing a Denial of Service. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3146">CVE-2008-3146</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3932">CVE-2008-3932</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3933">CVE-2008-3933</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3934">CVE-2008-3934</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-22T12:39:05Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-09-24T19:29:18Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-09-24T19:30:10Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>