SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2017:2032-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102189

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This wireshark update to version 2.2.8 fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-11411: The openSAFETY dissectorcould crash or exhaust system memory because of missing length validation. (bsc#1049621)

- CVE-2017-11410: The WBXML dissector could go into an infinite loop. (bsc#1049255)

- CVE-2017-11408: The AMQP dissector could crash.
(bsc#1049255)

- CVE-2017-11407: The MQ dissector could crash.
(bsc#1049255)

- CVE-2017-11406: The DOCSIS dissector could go into an infinite loop. (bsc#1049255)

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-wireshark-13225=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-wireshark-13225=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-wireshark-13225=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102189

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2032-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/4/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-gtk, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11406, CVE-2017-11407, CVE-2017-11408, CVE-2017-11410, CVE-2017-11411

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