Bug 397271 (CVE-2007-6112)

Summary:	CVE-2007-6112 wireshark ppp flaws
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-6112
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Last Closed:	2008-07-25 08:49:27 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	397381, 397391, 397401, 397411, 833988
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-11-23 21:19:30 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-6112 to the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the PPP dissector Wireshark (formerly Ethereal)
0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2007-12-20 19:51:10 UTC

wireshark-0.99.7-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-12-21 21:08:44 UTC

wireshark-0.99.7-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-07-25 08:49:27 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-4590