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Bug 737784 - (CVE-2011-3360) CVE-2011-3360 Wireshark: Lua script execution vulnerability
CVE-2011-3360 Wireshark: Lua script execution vulnerability
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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impact=low,public=20110728,reported=2...
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Blocks: 737788
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Reported: 2011-09-13 01:06 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2011-09-14 17:57 EDT (History)
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 01:06:01 EDT
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 02:13:36 EDT
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 17:57:32 EDT
This issue was assigned the name CVE-2011-3360.

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