Bug 454971 (CVE-2008-3138)

Summary:	CVE-2008-3138 wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET 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:	kreilly, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3138
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Last Closed:	2008-10-01 18:13:04 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	461566, 461567, 461568, 461569, 461570, 833989
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-11 07:37:05 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3138 to the following vulnerability:

The (1) PANA and (2) KISMET dissectors in Wireshark (formerly
Ethereal) 0.99.3 through 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (application stop) via unknown vectors.

References:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30886

Upstream bug:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2464

Upstream commits:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/index.py?view=rev&revision=25068
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/index.py?view=rev&revision=25069

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-07-15 12:18:35 UTC

wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-07-23 07:19:35 UTC

wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:13:04 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-2008-6645
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6440