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- RHSA-2008:0059
RHSA-2008:0059: Moderate: wireshark security update
First published: Mon Jan 21 2008(Updated: )
Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was<br>previously known as Ethereal.<br>Several flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or possibly<br>execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark if it read a malformed<br>packet off the network. (CVE-2007-6114, CVE-2007-6115, CVE-2007-6117)<br>Several denial of service bugs were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could<br>crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.<br>(CVE-2007-3389, CVE-2007-3390, CVE-2007-3391, CVE-2007-3392, CVE-2007-3392,<br>CVE-2007-3393, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121,<br>CVE-2007-6450, CVE-2007-6451)<br>As well, Wireshark switched from using net-snmp to libsmi, which is<br>included in this errata.<br>Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain<br>Wireshark version 0.99.7, and resolve these issues.
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Reference Links
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- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-0.99.7.html
- http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0059 (Advisory)
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