Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.3-1.fc14 (2011-0450)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 51853

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-3

- upgrade to 1.4.3

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.3 .html

- Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-2

- fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)

- Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
- 1.4.2-1

- upgrade to 1.4.2

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2 .html

- Mon Nov 1 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-2

- temporarily disable zlib until https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49 55 is resolved (#643461)

- Fri Oct 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1

- upgrade to 1.4.1

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1 .html

- Own the %{_libdir}/wireshark dir (#644508)

- associate *.pcap files with wireshark (#641163)

- Tue Oct 5 2010 jkeating - 1.4.0-2.1

- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 51853

File Name: fedora_2011-0450.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0444, CVE-2011-0445

FEDORA: 2011-0450

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