ALAS-2014-330

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-330
Advisory Release Date: 2014-04-25 15:57 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-18 00:29 Pacific

Severity: Medium

References: CVE-2013-6336 CVE-2013-6337 CVE-2013-6338 CVE-2013-6339 CVE-2013-6340 CVE-2013-7112 CVE-2013-7114 CVE-2014-2281 CVE-2014-2283 CVE-2014-2299 RHSA-2014-0342
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

Two flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2299)

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-2013-6336, CVE-2013-6337, CVE-2013-6338, CVE-2013-6339, CVE-2013-6340, CVE-2014-2283, CVE-2013-7112, CVE-2013-7114)

Affected Packages:

wireshark

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

New Packages:

i686:
    wireshark-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.i686

src:
    wireshark-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    wireshark-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-7.13.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-6336, CVE-2013-6337, CVE-2013-6338, CVE-2013-6339, CVE-2013-6340, CVE-2013-7112, CVE-2013-7114, CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2283, CVE-2014-2299

Mitre: CVE-2013-6336, CVE-2013-6337, CVE-2013-6338, CVE-2013-6339, CVE-2013-6340, CVE-2013-7112, CVE-2013-7114, CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2283, CVE-2014-2299