4.345. wireshark
Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.
Security Fixes
- CVE-2011-1590, CVE-2011-4102, CVE-2012-1595
- Several 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-2011-1143, CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175, CVE-2011-2597, CVE-2011-2698, CVE-2012-0041, CVE-2012-0042, CVE-2012-0067, CVE-2012-0066
- 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.
Users of Wireshark should 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.
An updated wireshark package that provides one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.
Enhancement
- BZ#746839
- Prior to this update, Wireshark did not show traffic information for the Network File System (NFS) version 4.1 protocol. With this update, the NFS packet dissector is enhanced so that Wireshark correctly displays traffic for this protocol. Note that NFS version 4.1 is introduced as a Technology Preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Users of wireshark are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.
