Executive Summary

Summary
Title wireshark security and bug fix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2017:0631 First vendor Publication 2017-03-21
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2017-03-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for wireshark is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Security Fix(es):

* 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-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2013-4075)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

972680 - CVE-2013-4075 wireshark: DoS (crash) in the GMR-1 BCCH dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-33) 1222436 - CVE-2015-3811 wireshark: WCP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-14) 1222437 - CVE-2015-3812 wireshark: X11 memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-15) 1222438 - CVE-2015-3813 wireshark: Reassembly memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-16) 1222895 - Problems decoding TLS Server Key Exchange messages 1222902 - Encrypt-then-MAC TLS extension unrecognised 1238166 - tshark -F option fails to create capture files in .pcap format. 1240675 - No dissection of the TLS Certificate Verify message

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0631.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
75 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
25 % CWE-17 Code

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16859
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16859
Title: epan/dissectors/packet-gmr1_bcch.c in the GMR-1 BCCH dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet
Description: epan/dissectors/packet-gmr1_bcch.c in the GMR-1 BCCH dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2013-4075
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Product(s): Wireshark
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 27
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_wireshark_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-05 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-813.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20151119_wireshark_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-02 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-2393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-2393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-02 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201510-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-12 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1713-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-06 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1676-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-06 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1676-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1098-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-15 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1046-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-241.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3277.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-29 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_a13500d0057011e5aab1d050996490d0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-380.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-379.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2013-1276-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-15 Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple ...
File : wireshark_1_12_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-28 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL15868.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17635.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17627.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17661.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201308-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-28 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_wireshark-130711.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2709.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-14 Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple ...
File : wireshark_1_8_8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-03-31 13:22:46
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-28 13:25:26
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-23 13:24:15
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-21 13:24:03
  • First insertion