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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:11:18 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Wireshark multiple vulnerabilities
On 01/11/2012 07:20 PM, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>
>> On 01/11/2012 09:19 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
>>> According to secunia advisory: https://secunia.com/advisories/47494/ :
>>>
>>> Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
>>> exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
>>> compromise a user's system.
>>>
>>> 1) NULL pointer dereference errors when reading certain packet
>>> information can
>>> be exploited to cause a crash.
>
> In this case, if a network monitor can be crashed, an attacker might
> be able to launch an attack undetected. As such, NULL pointer
> dereferences and other crashers in security-relevant products often
> count for CVEs, so Kurt, please assign one for this.
>
> See http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9 for
> further explanation from me.
>
> - Steve
>From what I read the first #1 and #2 (secunia) map to wireshark
wnpa-sec-2012-02.html and wnpa-sec-2012-03.html respectively, so they
should be all good? Or did I misread it (this is entirely possible =).
--
-- Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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