Summary
The remote host is missing an update to wireshark
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:292.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:292
Insight
Vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in wireshark, affecting DCERPC/NT dissector, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace (CVE-2009-3550) and
in wiretap/erf.c which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted erf file (CVE-2009-3829).
The wireshark package has been updated to fix these vulnerabilities.
Affected: 2009.1, Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:049 (pycrypto)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:012 (mozilla-thunderbird)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:015 (ffmpeg)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:085 (gstreamer0.10-plugins-base)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:189 (apache-mod_auth_mysql)