Wireshark: Denial of Service

Wireshark: Denial of Service Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark which allow for Denial of Service. wireshark 2009-09-13 2009-09-13 278564 remote 1.2.1 1.2.1

Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark:

A buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector related to an array index error (CVE-2009-2559).
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP dissectors (CVE-2009-2560).
An unspecified vulnerability in the sFlow dissector (CVE-2009-2561).
An unspecified vulnerability in the AFS dissector (CVE-2009-2562).
An unspecified vulnerability in the Infiniband dissector when running on unspecified platforms (CVE-2009-2563).

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted packets on a network being monitored by Wireshark or by enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace file to cause a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.2.1"

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