Bug 454973 (CVE-2008-3140)

Summary:	CVE-2008-3140 wireshark: crash in the syslog dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3140
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-11 07:45:18 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3140 to the following vulnerability:

The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via
unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog
encapsulated packet."

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=2647

Upstream commit:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/index.py?view=rev&revision=25612

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-07-11 07:59:06 UTC

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-07-15 12:18:28 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 3 Fedora Update System 2008-07-23 07:19:31 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 4 Red Hat Product Security 2008-11-13 15:29:44 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-6645
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6440