Moderate: wireshark security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-0666   CVE-2023-2856   CVE-2023-2858   CVE-2023-2952  

Synopsis

Moderate: wireshark security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for wireshark is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Security Fix(es):

  • wireshark: RTPS dissector crash (CVE-2023-0666)
  • wireshark: VMS TCPIPtrace file parser crash (CVE-2023-2856)
  • wireshark: NetScaler file parser crash (CVE-2023-2858)
  • wireshark: XRA dissector infinite loop (CVE-2023-2952)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2210824 - CVE-2023-2856 wireshark: VMS TCPIPtrace file parser crash
  • BZ - 2210829 - CVE-2023-2858 wireshark: NetScaler file parser crash
  • BZ - 2210832 - CVE-2023-0666 wireshark: RTPS dissector crash
  • BZ - 2211406 - CVE-2023-2952 wireshark: XRA dissector infinite loop