A buffer overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the pan/addr_resolv.c, and ws_manuf_lookup_str(), size components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

An update of the wireshark package has been released.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4115ab9959 advisory.

    New version 4.2.3

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1354-1 advisory.

  - A buffer overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the     pan/addr_resolv.c, and ws_manuf_lookup_str(), size components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor     because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected. (CVE-2024-24476)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1347-1 advisory.

  - A buffer overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the     pan/addr_resolv.c, and ws_manuf_lookup_str(), size components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor     because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected. (CVE-2024-24476)

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
206649	Photon OS 5.0: Wireshark PHSA-2024-5.0-0364	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
206647	Photon OS 4.0: Wireshark PHSA-2024-4.0-0683	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
194530	Fedora 40 : wireshark (2024-4115ab9959)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
193656	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2024:1354-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
193654	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2024:1347-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2024-24476

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Tenable Plugins

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