Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0600 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wireshark
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file, as demonstrated by a file with exactly one frame.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2009-1798.NASL description Few minor security issues were fixed in new version of wireshark. Security- related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html NFSv4.1: Add support for backchannel decoding - Dynamically registers a callback dissector based on the CREATE_SESSION args. - Supports the decoding of CB_SEQUENCE, CB_RECALL, CB_LAYOUTRECALL operations Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 37388 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37388 title Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10 (2009-1798) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2009-1798. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(37388); script_version ("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:29"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0599", "CVE-2009-0600"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2009-1798"); script_name(english:"Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10 (2009-1798)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Few minor security issues were fixed in new version of wireshark. Security- related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html NFSv4.1: Add support for backchannel decoding - Dynamically registers a callback dissector based on the CREATE_SESSION args. - Supports the decoding of CB_SEQUENCE, CB_RECALL, CB_LAYOUTRECALL operations Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485888" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485889" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2009-March/020980.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8baebabd" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected wireshark package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_cwe_id(20, 119); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/02/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^10([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 10.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC10", reference:"wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "wireshark"); }NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_F6F19735924549188A6087948EBB4907.NASL description Vendor reports : On non-Windows systems Wireshark could crash if the HOME environment variable contained sprintf-style string formatting characters. Wireshark could crash while reading a malformed NetScreen snoop file. Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix K12 text capture file. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35990 published 2009-03-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35990 title FreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (f6f19735-9245-4918-8a60-87948ebb4907) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_1_WIRESHARK-090218.NASL description wireshark: fixed crashes while reading capture files containing NetScreen data (CVE-2009-0599), Tektronix K12 capture files (CVE-2009-0600) and and a format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0601). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40322 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40322 title openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-539) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_WIRESHARK-6007.NASL description wireshark: fixed crashes while reading capture files containing NetScreen data (CVE-2009-0599), Tektronix K12 capture files (CVE-2009-0600) and and a format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0601). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35729 published 2009-02-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35729 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-6007) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20090304_WIRESHARK_ON_SL3_X.NASL description Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599) Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682,CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600) All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60541 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60541 title Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-058.NASL description Buffer overflow in wiretap/netscreen.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file. (CVE-2009-0599) Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file, as demonstrated by a file with exactly one frame. (CVE-2009-0600) Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable. (CVE-2009-0601) This update provides Wireshark 1.0.6, which is not vulnerable to these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 37419 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37419 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2009:058) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0313.NASL description Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal. Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599) Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600) Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.6, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35767 published 2009-03-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35767 title CentOS 3 / 4 : wireshark (CESA-2009:0313) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200906-05.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200906-05 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark: David Maciejak discovered a vulnerability in packet-usb.c in the USB dissector via a malformed USB Request Block (URB) (CVE-2008-4680). Florent Drouin and David Maciejak reported an unspecified vulnerability in the Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector (CVE-2008-4681). A malformed Tamos CommView capture file (aka .ncf file) with an last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39580 published 2009-07-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39580 title GLSA-200906-05 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0313.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0313 : Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal. Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599) Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600) Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.6, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67809 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67809 title Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (ELSA-2009-0313) NASL family Windows NASL id WIRESHARK_1_0_6.NASL description The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is affected by multiple denial of service issues : - Wireshark could crash while reading a malformed NetScreen snoop file. (Bug 3151) - Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix K12 text capture file. (Bug 1937) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35629 published 2009-02-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35629 title Wireshark / Ethereal 0.99.6 to 1.0.5 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2009-1877.NASL description Minor security issues are fixed in new version of wireshark. Security-related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35933 published 2009-03-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35933 title Fedora 9 : wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9 (2009-1877) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_WIRESHARK-090218.NASL description wireshark: fixed crashes while reading capture files containing NetScreen data (CVE-2009-0599), Tektronix K12 capture files (CVE-2009-0600) and and a format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0601). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40153 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40153 title openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-539) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0313.NASL description Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal. Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599) Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600) Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.6, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35772 published 2009-03-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35772 title RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2009:0313)
Oval
accepted 2013-04-29T04:09:23.488-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Aharon Chernin organization SCAP.com, LLC name Dragos Prisaca organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782 comment CentOS Linux 3.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831 comment CentOS Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636 comment Oracle Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11414 comment The operating system installed on the system is CentOS Linux 5.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15802 comment Oracle Linux 5.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15459
description Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file, as demonstrated by a file with exactly one frame. family unix id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10853 status accepted submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 title Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file, as demonstrated by a file with exactly one frame. version 27 accepted 2013-08-19T04:00:53.319-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment Wireshark is installed on the system. oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6589 description Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file, as demonstrated by a file with exactly one frame. family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15041 status accepted submitted 2012-02-27T15:34:33.178-04:00 title Wireshark 0.99.6 through 1.0.5 vulnerability via crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file version 10
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33872
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34264
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34344
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501763/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33690
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021697
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0370
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1937
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10853
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15041
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00652.html