CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
73.0%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1676
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse
the traffic running on a computer network.
Multiple flaws were 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-2014-6429, CVE-2014-6430, CVE-2014-6431, CVE-2014-6432)
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-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422, CVE-2014-6423,
CVE-2014-6424, CVE-2014-6425, CVE-2014-6426, CVE-2014-6427, CVE-2014-6428)
All wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct 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/2014-October/082864.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2014-October/027754.html
Affected packages:
wireshark
wireshark-devel
wireshark-gnome
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1676
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 7 | i686 | wireshark | < 1.10.3-12.el7_0 | wireshark-1.10.3-12.el7_0.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | wireshark | < 1.10.3-12.el7_0 | wireshark-1.10.3-12.el7_0.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | i686 | wireshark-devel | < 1.10.3-12.el7_0 | wireshark-devel-1.10.3-12.el7_0.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | wireshark-devel | < 1.10.3-12.el7_0 | wireshark-devel-1.10.3-12.el7_0.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | wireshark-gnome | < 1.10.3-12.el7_0 | wireshark-gnome-1.10.3-12.el7_0.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | wireshark | < 1.8.10-8.el6_6 | wireshark-1.8.10-8.el6_6.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | wireshark-devel | < 1.8.10-8.el6_6 | wireshark-devel-1.8.10-8.el6_6.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | wireshark-gnome | < 1.8.10-8.el6_6 | wireshark-gnome-1.8.10-8.el6_6.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | i686 | wireshark | < 1.8.10-8.el6_6 | wireshark-1.8.10-8.el6_6.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | wireshark | < 1.8.10-8.el6_6 | wireshark-1.8.10-8.el6_6.x86_64.rpm |