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<glsa id="200608-26">
  <title>Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Wireshark is vulnerable to several security issues that may lead to a
    Denial of Service and/or the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wireshark</product>
  <announced>August 29, 2006</announced>
  <revised>August 29, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>144946</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/wireshark" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.99.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.99.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Wireshark is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.
    Firstly, if the IPsec ESP parser is used it is susceptible to
    off-by-one errors, this parser is disabled by default; secondly, the
    SCSI dissector is vulnerable to an unspecified crash; and finally, the
    Q.2931 dissector of the SSCOP payload may use all the available memory
    if a port range is configured. By default, no port ranges are
    configured.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker might be able to exploit these vulnerabilities, resulting
    in a crash or the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of
    the user running Wireshark, possibly the root user.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Disable the SCSI and Q.2931 dissectors with the "Analyse" and "Enabled
    protocols" menus. Make sure the ESP decryption is disabled, with the
    "Edit -> Preferences -> Protocols -> ESP" menu.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4330">CVE-2006-4330</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4331">CVE-2006-4331</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4332">CVE-2006-4332</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4333">CVE-2006-4333</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-02.html">Wireshark official advisory</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:36:40 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:34:42 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:55:04 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>