RHSA-2008:0890Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security update

Published
October 1, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (14)

CVE-2008-1070 →CVE-2008-1071 →CVE-2008-1072 →CVE-2008-1561 →CVE-2008-1562 →CVE-2008-1563 →CVE-2008-3137 →CVE-2008-3138 →CVE-2008-3141 →CVE-2008-3145 →CVE-2008-3146 →CVE-2008-3932 →CVE-2008-3933 →CVE-2008-3934 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-1070 — wireshark: SCTP dissector crash CVE-2008-1071 — wireshark: SNMP dissector crash CVE-2008-1072 — wireshark: TFTP dissector crash CVE-2008-1561 — wireshark: crash in X.509sat and Roofnet dissectors CVE-2008-1562 — wireshark: crash in LDAP dissector CVE-2008-1563 — wireshark: crash in SCCP dissector CVE-2008-3137 — wireshark: crash in the GSM SMS dissector CVE-2008-3138 — wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors CVE-2008-3141 — wireshark: memory disclosure in the RMI dissector CVE-2008-3145 — wireshark: crash in the packet reassembling CVE-2008-3146 — wireshark: multiple buffer overflows in NCP dissector CVE-2008-3932 — wireshark: infinite loop in the NCP dissector CVE-2008-3933 — wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data CVE-2008-3934 — wireshark: crash via crafted Tektronix .rf5 file

🎯 Affected products129

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • wireshark-0:1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • +99 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (20)