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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2011:105)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54940

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.17), fixing several security issues :

 - Large/infinite loop in the DICOM dissector. (Bug 5876) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

 - Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Diameter dictionary file could crash Wireshark. Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

 - Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted snoop file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5912) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

 - David Maciejak of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs discovered that malformed compressed capture data could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5908) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

 - Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Visual Networks file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5934) Versions affected:
 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54940

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2011-105.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:rawshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark-tools, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dumpcap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175

BID: 48066

MDVSA: 2011:105