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  Severity: High
     Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: December 30, 2007
      Bugs: #199958
        ID: 200712-23

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

Background
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Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.

Affected packages
=================

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     Package                 /  Vulnerable  /               Unaffected
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  1  net-analyzer/wireshark      < 0.99.7                    >= 0.99.7

Description
===========

Multiple buffer overflows and infinite loops were discovered in
multiple dissector and parser components, including those for MP3 and
NCP (CVE-2007-6111), PPP (CVE-2007-6112), DNP (CVE-2007-6113), SSL and
iSeries (OS/400) Communication traces (CVE-2007-6114), ANSI MAP
(CVE-2007-6115), Firebird/Interbase (CVE-2007-6116), HTTP
(CVE-2007-6117), MEGACO (CVE-2007-6118), DCP ETSI (CVE-2007-6119),
Bluetooth SDP (CVE-2007-6120), RPC Portmap (CVE-2007-6121), SMB
(CVE-2007-6438), IPv6 amd USB (CVE-2007-6439), WiMAX (CVE-2007-6441),
RPL (CVE-2007-6450), CIP (CVE-2007-6451). The vulnerabilities were
discovered by Stefan Esser, Beyond Security, Fabiodds, Peter Leeming,
Steve and ainsley.

Impact
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A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets on a network
being monitored with Wireshark or entice a user to open a specially
crafted file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Wireshark (which might be the
root user), or a Denial of Service.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.7"

References
==========

  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-6111
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6111
  [ 2 ] CVE-2007-6112
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6112
  [ 3 ] CVE-2007-6113
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6113
  [ 4 ] CVE-2007-6114
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6114
  [ 5 ] CVE-2007-6115
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6115
  [ 6 ] CVE-2007-6116
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6116
  [ 7 ] CVE-2007-6117
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6117
  [ 8 ] CVE-2007-6118
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6118
  [ 9 ] CVE-2007-6119
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6119
  [ 10 ] CVE-2007-6120
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6120
  [ 11 ] CVE-2007-6121
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6121
  [ 12 ] CVE-2007-6438
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6438
  [ 13 ] CVE-2007-6439
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6439
  [ 14 ] CVE-2007-6441
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6441
  [ 15 ] CVE-2007-6450
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6450
  [ 16 ] CVE-2007-6451
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6451

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5