<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200909-16"> <title>Wireshark: Denial of Service</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark which allow for Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">wireshark</product> <announced>September 13, 2009</announced> <revised>September 13, 2009: 01</revised> <bug>278564</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/wireshark" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.2.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark: </p> <ul> <li>A buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector related to an array index error (CVE-2009-2559).</li> <li>Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP dissectors (CVE-2009-2560).</li> <li>An unspecified vulnerability in the sFlow dissector (CVE-2009-2561).</li> <li>An unspecified vulnerability in the AFS dissector (CVE-2009-2562).</li> <li>An unspecified vulnerability in the Infiniband dissector when running on unspecified platforms (CVE-2009-2563).</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 to cause 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-1.2.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2559">CVE-2009-2559</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2560">CVE-2009-2560</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2561">CVE-2009-2561</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2562">CVE-2009-2562</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2563">CVE-2009-2563</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:03:54 +0000"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:10:41 +0000"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:28:12 +0000"> keytoaster </metadata> </glsa>