In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

  - The srtp_add_address function in epan/dissectors/packet-rtp.c in the RTP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x     before 1.10.7 does not properly update SRTP conversation data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2014-2907)

  - The dissect_frame function in epan/dissectors/packet-frame.c in the frame metadissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.8 interprets a negative integer as a length value even though it was intended to     represent an error condition, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application     crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2014-4020)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was     addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks. (CVE-2018-5334)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length. (CVE-2018-5335)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

Several vulnerabilities were fixed in Wireshark, a network sniffer.

CVE-2019-13619

ASN.1 BER and related dissectors crash.

CVE-2019-16319

The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop.

CVE-2019-19553

The CMS dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-7045

The BT ATT dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-9428

The EAP dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-9430

The WiMax DLMAP dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-9431

The LTE RRC dissector could leak memory.

CVE-2020-11647

The BACapp dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-13164

The NFS dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-15466

The GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop.

CVE-2020-25862

The TCP dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-25863

The MIME Multipart dissector could crash.

CVE-2020-26418

Memory leak in the Kafka protocol dissector.

CVE-2020-26421

Crash in USB HID protocol dissector.

CVE-2020-26575

The Facebook Zero Protocol (aka FBZERO) dissector could enter an infinite loop.

CVE-2020-28030

The GQUIC dissector could crash.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.20-0+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

For the detailed security status of wireshark please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wireshark

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 and libmaxminddb fixes the following issues :

Update wireshark to new major version 3.2.2 and introduce libmaxminddb for GeoIP support (bsc#1156288).

New features include :

  - Added support for 111 new protocols, including     WireGuard, LoRaWAN, TPM 2.0, 802.11ax and QUIC

  - Improved support for existing protocols, like HTTP/2

  - Improved analytics and usability functionalities

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for wireshark and libmaxminddb fixes the following issues :

Update wireshark to new major version 3.2.2 and introduce libmaxminddb for GeoIP support (bsc#1156288).

New features include :

Added support for 111 new protocols, including WireGuard, LoRaWAN, TPM 2.0, 802.11ax and QUIC

Improved support for existing protocols, like HTTP/2

Improved analytics and usability functionalities

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.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2.6.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-2.6.11 advisory.

  - The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. It     may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU     resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire     or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet     trace file. (wireshark-bug-16020)

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

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 2.6.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-2.6.11 advisory.

  - The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. It     may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU     resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire     or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet     trace file. (wireshark-bug-16020)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 3.0.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-3.0.4 advisory.

  - The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. It     may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU     resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire     or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet     trace file. (wireshark-bug-16020)

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

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 3.0.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-3.0.4 advisory.

  - The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. It     may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU     resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire     or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet     trace file. (wireshark-bug-16020)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199503	RHEL 7 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199495	RHEL 8 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196731	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
146291	Debian DLA-2547-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
134755	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2020-362)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
134625	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2020:0693-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
129061	Wireshark 2.6.x < 2.6.11 Gryphon Dissector DoS Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	high
129060	Wireshark 2.6.x < 2.6.11 Gryphon Dissector DoS Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
129059	Wireshark 3.0.x < 3.0.4 Gryphon Dissector DoS Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	high
129058	Wireshark 3.0.x < 3.0.4 Gryphon Dissector DoS Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

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