In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 4.0.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.0.8 advisory.

  - Multiple integer signedness errors in the tvb_unmasked function in epan/dissectors/packet-websocket.c in     the Websocket dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (application crash) via a malformed packet. (CVE-2013-3562)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the SoulSeek dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by making loop bounds more explicit. (CVE-2017-9346)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (stack exhaustion) in the dissect_IODWriteReq function in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-     io.c. (CVE-2017-9766)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.
    (CVE-2018-9262)

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in the Bluetooth DHT dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17     allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39929)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.0.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.0.8 advisory.

  - Multiple integer signedness errors in the tvb_unmasked function in epan/dissectors/packet-websocket.c in     the Websocket dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (application crash) via a malformed packet. (CVE-2013-3562)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the SoulSeek dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by making loop bounds more explicit. (CVE-2017-9346)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (stack exhaustion) in the dissect_IODWriteReq function in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-     io.c. (CVE-2017-9766)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.
    (CVE-2018-9262)

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in the Bluetooth DHT dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17     allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39929)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Several issues in wireshark, a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire, have been found by different people. These are basically issues with length checks or invalid memory access in different dissectors. This could result in infinite loops or crashes by malicious packets.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u16.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues :

  - Update to wireshark 2.2.14, fix such issues :

  - bsc#1088200 VUL-0: wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities     fixed in 2.2.14, 2.4.6

  - CVE-2018-9256: LWAPP dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9260: IEEE 802.15.4 dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9261: NBAP dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9262: VLAN dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9263: Kerberos dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9264: ADB dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9265: tn3270 dissector has a memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9266: ISUP dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9267: LAPD dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9268: SMB2 dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9269: GIOP dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9270: OIDS dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9271: multipart dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9272: h223 dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9273: pcp dissector memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9274: failure message memory leak

  - CVE-2018-9259: MP4 dissector crash

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues :

Minor vulnerabilities that could be used to trigger dissector crashes or cause dissectors to go into large infinite loops by making Wireshark read specially crafted packages from the network or capture files (boo#1088200) :

  - CVE-2018-9264: ADB dissector crash 

  - CVE-2018-9260: IEEE 802.15.4 dissector crash 

  - CVE-2018-9261: NBAP dissector crash 

  - CVE-2018-9262: VLAN dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9256: LWAPP dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9263: Kerberos dissector crash

  - CVE-2018-9259: MP4 dissector crash

  - Memory leaks in multiple dissectors: CVE-2018-9265,     CVE-2018-9266, CVE-2018-9267, CVE-2018-9268,     CVE-2018-9269, CVE-2018-9270, CVE-2018-9271,     CVE-2018-9272, CVE-2018-9273, CVE-2018-9274

This update also contains all upstream bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in :

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.2.14.html

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.2.x prior to 2.2.14 or 2.4.x prior to 2.4.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote MacOS/MacOSX host is 2.2.x prior to 2.2.14 or 2.4.x prior to 2.4.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
180102	Wireshark 4.0.x < 4.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
180101	Wireshark 4.0.x < 4.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
121193	Debian DLA-1634-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
109198	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:0981-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109197	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:0980-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108937	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2018-347)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108885	Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.14 / 2.4.x < 2.4.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
108884	Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.14 / 2.4.x < 2.4.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (MacOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

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