Synopsis: Moderate: wireshark security update
Issue Date: 2012-04-23
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-1143
CVE-2011-1590
CVE-2011-1957
CVE-2011-1959
CVE-2011-2174
CVE-2011-2175
CVE-2011-1958
CVE-2011-2597
CVE-2011-2698
CVE-2011-4102
CVE-2012-0041
CVE-2012-0042
CVE-2012-0066
CVE-2012-0067
CVE-2012-1595
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Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was
previously known as Ethereal.
Several flaws were found in Wireshark. 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-2011-1590,
CVE-2011-4102, CVE-2012-1595)
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-2011-1143, CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958,
CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175, CVE-2011-2597, CVE-2011-2698,
CVE-2012-0041, CVE-2012-0042, CVE-2012-0067, CVE-2012-0066)
Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of
Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.
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SL6
x86_64
wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
i386
wireshark-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
