Bug 440014 (CVE-2008-1561)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1561 wireshark: crash in X.509sat and Roofnet dissectors
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cwebster, kreilly, rvokal
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1561
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Last Closed:	2008-10-01 18:04:24 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	435485, 435487, 435488, 461566, 461567, 461568, 461569, 461570, 833989
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-04-01 11:55:38 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1561 to the following vulnerability:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors.  NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

Refences:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28485
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1007/references
http://secunia.com/advisories/29569

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:16:00 UTC

wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:22:45 UTC

wireshark-1.0.0-1.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 Calvin Webster 2008-06-25 16:44:14 UTC

I don't see comments on RHEL versions here. Latest RHEL 4 version in RHN is
wireshark-0.99.7-1.el4.i386. Does this affect versions shipped with RHEL 4 & 5?

Same question for related bug #440015 and bug #439943

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2008-06-25 16:54:57 UTC

Due to a low impact of the flaw, fixing of this issue has been deferred until
there is some more important issue to be addressed in the wireshark packages in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

Official statement is available at:
  http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1561

Official Statement from Red Hat (4/1/2008)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1561

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Comment 7 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:04:24 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3040