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Mandriva Update for wireshark MDVSA-2012:042 (wireshark)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

3.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'wireshark' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark: * The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. * The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. * The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. * The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. This advisory provides the latest version of Wireshark (1.6.6) which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Affected Software

Affected Software

wireshark on Mandriva Linux 2011.0

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)