Bug 485888 (CVE-2009-0599)

Summary:	CVE-2009-0599 wireshark: buffer overflows in NetScreen snoop file reader
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, mjc, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3151
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Last Closed:	2009-06-16 06:44:28 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	486548, 486549, 486550, 486551, 486552, 833990
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-17 09:23:17 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-0599 to
the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in wiretap/netscreen.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through
1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0599
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2590
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33690
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2009/0370
http://osvdb.org/51815
http://secunia.com/advisories/33872

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-17 09:52:33 UTC

This issue does NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped
with Fedora releases of 9 and 10.

This issue does NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped
with Fedora release of devel.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-17 10:00:48 UTC

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having
low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More
information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2009-02-20 09:32:11 UTC

This is stack-based buffer overflow, that may be exploitable at least on systems without stack protector -> impact=moderate.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-03-05 16:34:48 UTC

wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-03-16 19:52:35 UTC

wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Red Hat Product Security 2009-06-16 06:44:28 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-1798
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-1877