Fedora 27 : 1:wireshark (2018-cdf3f8e8b0)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 108674

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Removing dependency on wireshark metapackage from wireshark-cli

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Added wireshark-qt to wireshark metapackage

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- New version 2.4.5

- Contains fixes for CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7418, CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7420, CVE-2018-7320, CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7334, CVE-2018-7335, CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-9616, CVE-2017-9617, CVE-2017-9766

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

Solution

Update the affected 1:wireshark package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 108674

File Name: fedora_2018-cdf3f8e8b0.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/28/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17997, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-9616, CVE-2017-9617, CVE-2017-9766, CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2018-7320, CVE-2018-7334, CVE-2018-7335, CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7418, CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7420

FEDORA: 2018-cdf3f8e8b0

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