RHSA-2013:0125Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
January 8, 2013
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (13)

CVE-2011-1958 →CVE-2011-1959 →CVE-2011-2175 →CVE-2011-2698 →CVE-2011-4102 →CVE-2012-0041 →CVE-2012-0042 →CVE-2012-0066 →CVE-2012-0067 →CVE-2012-4285 →CVE-2012-4289 →CVE-2012-4290 →CVE-2012-4291 →

📋 Description

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-2011-2175 — wireshark: Heap-based buffer over-read in Visual Networks dissector 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-2012-4285 — wireshark: crash due to zero division in DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-13) CVE-2012-4289 — wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in AFP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-17) CVE-2012-4290 — wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in CTDB dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-23) CVE-2012-4291 — wireshark: DoS via excessive system resource consumption in CIP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-20)

🎯 Affected products29

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • wireshark-gnome-0:1.0.15-5.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)

✅ 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

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