Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Wireshark vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3986-1 First vendor Publication 2019-05-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-05-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Wireshark could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic or input files.

Software Description: - wireshark: network traffic analyzer

Details:

It was discovered that Wireshark improperly handled certain input. A remote or local attacker could cause Wireshark to crash by injecting malformed packets onto the wire or convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10:
libwireshark-data 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
libwireshark11 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
libwiretap8 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
libwscodecs2 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
libwsutil9 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
tshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
wireshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
wireshark-common 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
wireshark-gtk 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
wireshark-qt 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libwireshark-data 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
libwireshark11 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
libwiretap8 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
libwscodecs2 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
libwsutil9 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
tshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
wireshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
wireshark-common 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
wireshark-gtk 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
wireshark-qt 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libwireshark-data 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
libwireshark11 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
libwiretap8 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
libwscodecs2 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
libwsutil9 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
tshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
wireshark 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
wireshark-common 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
wireshark-gtk 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
wireshark-qt 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3986-1
CVE-2019-10894, CVE-2019-10895, CVE-2019-10896, CVE-2019-10899,
CVE-2019-10901, CVE-2019-10903, CVE-2019-9208, CVE-2019-9209,
CVE-2019-9214

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3986-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
30 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
30 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
20 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
10 % CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
10 % CWE-193 Off-by-one Error

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 229
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2
Os 3

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Date Informations
2019-05-16 21:18:56
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