Synopsis: Moderate: wireshark security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2014:1677-1 Issue Date: 2014-10-21 CVE Numbers: CVE-2014-6429 CVE-2014-6430 CVE-2014-6431 CVE-2014-6432 CVE-2014-6428 CVE-2014-6425 CVE-2014-6423 CVE-2014-6421 CVE-2014-6422 -- Multiple flaws were found in Wireshark. 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-2014-6429, CVE-2014-6430, CVE-2014-6431, CVE-2014-6432) Several denial of service flaws were 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-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422, CVE-2014-6423, CVE-2014-6425, CVE-2014-6428) All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect. -- SL5 x86_64 wireshark-1.0.15-7.el5_11.x86_64.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-7.el5_11.x86_64.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-7.el5_11.x86_64.rpm i386 wireshark-1.0.15-7.el5_11.i386.rpm wireshark-debuginfo-1.0.15-7.el5_11.i386.rpm wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-7.el5_11.i386.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team