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 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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 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: Kafka dissector infinite loop (CVE-2021-4190)

  - wireshark: ISO 15765 and ISO 10681 dissector crash (CVE-2023-1161)

  - Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4181)

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.

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
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
199485	RHEL 9 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196731	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
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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