Bug 454971 (CVE-2008-3138) - CVE-2008-3138 wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors
Summary: CVE-2008-3138 wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3138
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Depends On: 461566 461567 461568 461569 461570 833989
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-11 07:37 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-01 18:13:04 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
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 2008-07-11 07:37:05 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3138 to the following vulnerability:

The (1) PANA and (2) KISMET dissectors in Wireshark (formerly
Ethereal) 0.99.3 through 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (application stop) via unknown vectors.

References:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30886

Upstream bug:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2464

Upstream commits:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/index.py?view=rev&revision=25068
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/index.py?view=rev&revision=25069
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-07-15 12:18:35 UTC 
wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-07-23 07:19:35 UTC 
wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:13:04 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-2008-6645
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6440
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