CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
99.2%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1100
Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was
previously known as Ethereal.
A format string flaw was 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-2009-1210)
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-2009-1268, CVE-2009-1269, CVE-2009-1829)
Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Wireshark version 1.0.8, and resolve these issues. All running instances of
Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-June/078131.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-June/078132.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-June/078149.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-June/078150.html
Affected packages:
wireshark
wireshark-gnome
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1100
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 3 | i386 | wireshark | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-1.0.8-EL3.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | wireshark-gnome | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-gnome-1.0.8-EL3.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | wireshark | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-1.0.8-EL3.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | wireshark-gnome | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-gnome-1.0.8-EL3.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | wireshark | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-1.0.8-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | wireshark-gnome | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-gnome-1.0.8-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | wireshark | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-1.0.8-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | wireshark-gnome | <Â 1.0.8-EL3.1 | wireshark-gnome-1.0.8-EL3.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | wireshark | <Â 1.0.8-1.el5_3.1 | wireshark-1.0.8-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | wireshark-gnome | <Â 1.0.8-1.el5_3.1 | wireshark-gnome-1.0.8-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm |