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Debian DLA-1729-1 : wireshark security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 123096
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Several vulnerabilities have been found in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer.CVE-2019-9209: Preventing the crash of the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors by avoiding a buffer overflow associated with excessive digits in time values.
CVE-2017-9349: Fixing an infinite loop in the DICOM dissector by validating a length value.
CVE-2017-9344: Avoid a divide by zero, by validating an interval value in the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector.
For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u18.
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.
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.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00031.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 123096
File Name: debian_DLA-1729.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2019
Updated: 6/12/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9349
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.7
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwsutil-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwiretap-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwiretap4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwsutil4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-qt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-common
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2017