Bug 461242 (CVE-2008-3146)

Summary: CVE-2008-3146 wireshark: multiple buffer overflows in NCP dissector
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 461254, 461255, 461566, 461567, 461568, 461569, 461570, 833989    
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-09-05 09:49:50 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3146 to the following vulnerability:

Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly
Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of
service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

References:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:05:06 UTC
wireshark-1.0.3-1.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 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:10:52 UTC
wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:17:34 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-2008-7894
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7936