Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.
Several flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2007-6112, CVE-2007-6114, CVE-2007-6115, CVE-2007-6117)
Several denial of service bugs were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network.
(CVE-2007-6111, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6116, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6119, CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121, CVE-2007-6438, CVE-2007-6439, CVE-2007-6441, CVE-2007-6450, CVE-2007-6451)
As well, Wireshark switched from using net-snmp to libsmi, which is included in this errata.
Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 0.99.7, and resolve these issues.
Affected
wireshark on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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