Bug 461244 (CVE-2008-3933)

Summary: CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly, rvokal
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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 10:02:25 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3933 to
the following vulnerability:

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers
to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted
zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the
tvb_uncompress function.

References:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:05:12 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 17:10:58 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 18:19:43 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