Bug 461244 (CVE-2008-3933) - CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data
Summary: CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3933
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 461254 461255 461566 461567 461568 461569 461570 833989
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-05 10:02 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-01 18:19:43 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0890 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security update 2008-10-01 15:33:35 UTC

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
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