ALAS-2015-580

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8710   CVE-2014-8711   CVE-2014-8712   CVE-2014-8713   CVE-2014-8714   CVE-2015-0562   CVE-2015-0564   CVE-2015-2189   CVE-2015-2191  

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-2014-8714, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2015-0562, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191)

ALAS-2015-580


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-580
Advisory Release Date: 2015-08-17 12:29 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-08-17 12:29 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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-2014-8714, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2015-0562, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191)


Affected Packages:

wireshark


Issue Correction:
Run yum update wireshark to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.i686

src:
    wireshark-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-17.19.amzn1.x86_64