Bug 513033 (CVE-2009-2561)
Summary: | CVE-2009-2561 Wireshark: Dos (excessive CPU and memory use) via large amount of tree items in the sFlow dissector | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | rvokal |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3570 | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2010-06-25 09:48:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2009-07-21 17:44:39 UTC
This issue does NOT affect the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This issue does NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 10. This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora releases of 11 and Rawhide. MITRE's CVE-2009-2561 entry: Unspecified vulnerability in the sFlow dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via unspecified vectors. References: ---------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2561 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35748 http://secunia.com/advisories/35884 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1970 Official statement from Red Hat Security Response Team regarding this issue: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5. wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |