From: Pınar Yanardağ (pinarpardus.org.tr)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2008 - 20:11:45 CDT

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-38 securitypardus.org.tr
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       Date: 2008-09-06
   Severity: 3
       Type: Remote
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Summary
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Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

Description
===========

1) Various errors within epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc can be
exploited to cause e.g. a crash or an infinite loop via specially
crafted NCP packets.

2) An error while uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data can be
exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

Affected packages:

   Pardus 2008:
     wireshark, all before 1.0.3-22-4
   Pardus 2007:
     wireshark, all before 1.0.3-22-18

Resolution
==========

There are update(s) for wireshark. You can update them via Package
Manager or with a single command from console:

   Pardus 2008:
     pisi up wireshark

   Pardus 2007:
     pisi up wireshark

References
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   * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8119
   * http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
   * http://secunia.com/advisories/31674

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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr

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