RHSA-2012:0509Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security update

Published
April 23, 2012
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (15)

CVE-2011-1143 →CVE-2011-1590 →CVE-2011-1957 →CVE-2011-1958 →CVE-2011-1959 →CVE-2011-2174 →CVE-2011-2175 →CVE-2011-2597 →CVE-2011-2698 →CVE-2011-4102 →CVE-2012-0041 →CVE-2012-0042 →CVE-2012-0066 →CVE-2012-0067 →CVE-2012-1595 →

📋 Description

CVE-2011-1143 — Wireshark: Null pointer dereference causing application crash when reading malformed pcap file CVE-2011-1590 — Wireshark: Use-after-free causes heap-based buffer overflow in X.509if dissector CVE-2011-1957 — wireshark: Infinite loop in the DICOM dissector CVE-2011-1958 — (64bit): NULL pointer dereference by processing of a corrupted Diameter dictionary file CVE-2011-1959 — wireshark: Stack-based buffer over-read from tvbuff buffer when reading snoop capture files CVE-2011-2174 — wireshark: Double-free flaw by uncompressing of a zlib compressed packet CVE-2011-2175 — wireshark: Heap-based buffer over-read in Visual Networks dissector CVE-2011-2597 — wireshark: infinite loop DoS in lucent/ascend file parser CVE-2011-2698 — wireshark: Infinite loop in the ANSI A Interface (IS-634/IOS) dissector CVE-2011-4102 — wireshark: buffer overflow in the ERF file reader CVE-2012-0041 — wireshark: multiple file parser vulnerabilities (wnpa-sec-2012-01) CVE-2012-0042 — wireshark: NULL pointer vulnerabilities (wnpa-sec-2012-02) CVE-2012-0066 — Wireshark: Dos via large buffer allocation request CVE-2012-0067 — Wireshark: Dos due to integer overflow in IPTrace capture format parser CVE-2012-1595 — wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow when reading ERF packets from pcap/pcap-ng trace files

🎯 Affected products60

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

🔗 References (18)