Fedora 12 : wireshark-1.2.10-1.fc12 (2010-13427)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 49093

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 1.2.10: * http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.7.html * http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.8.html * http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.9.html * http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.10.html fixing multiple security issues: * http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-04.html * http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-06.html * http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-08.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.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark package.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.10.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.7.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.8.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.9.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-04.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-06.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-08.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590613

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604290

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604292

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604302

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604308

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623843

http://www.nessus.org/u?94fdf596

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 49093

File Name: fedora_2010-13427.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1455, CVE-2010-2283, CVE-2010-2284, CVE-2010-2286, CVE-2010-2287, CVE-2010-2992, CVE-2010-2993, CVE-2010-2995

FEDORA: 2010-13427