Bug 737784 (CVE-2011-3360)

Summary:	CVE-2011-3360 Wireshark: Lua script execution vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jsafrane, rvokal, vdanen
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 05:06:01 UTC

It was found that wireshark could run arbitrary Lua scripts. 

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-15.html

This issue affects the versions of wireshark shipped with Fedora-14, Fedora-15
and the upcoming Fedora-16 and has been fixed via the following security
advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12423
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12403
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12399

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 06:13:36 UTC

Version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, does not have lua support. Version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is built without lua support.

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 or 6.

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-09-14 21:57:32 UTC

This issue was assigned the name CVE-2011-3360.