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Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:28:58 -0600
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Security ERRATA Moderate: wireshark on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: wireshark security update
Issue date:	2010-11-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3445 CVE-2010-4300

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Wireshark Local 
Download Sharing Service (LDSS) dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed 
packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, 
possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. 
(CVE-2010-4300)

A denial of service flaw was found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash 
or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or 
opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2010-3445)

All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to 
take effect.

SL 6.x

      SRPMS:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.src.rpm
      i386:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
      x86_64:
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
wireshark-devel-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.13-1.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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