National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3138

Overview

The (1) PANA and (2) KISMET dissectors in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.3 through 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application stop) via unknown vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)

The affected version of Wireshark as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 were fixed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-6440

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-pana-kismet-dos(43519)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43519

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2773

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1982

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1982/references

External Source: BID

Name: 30020

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30020

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080703 rPSA-2008-0212-1 tshark wireshark

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493882/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0890

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1673

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020404

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1020404

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200808-04

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32944

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32944

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32091

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32091

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31687

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31687

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31378

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31378

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31085

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31085

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30942

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30942

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30886

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30886

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14898

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14898

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10536

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10536

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10536

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10536