RHEL 7 : wireshark (RHSA-2020:1047)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135076

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for wireshark.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1047 advisory.

- wireshark: SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c (CVE-2018-7418)

- wireshark: Out-of-bounds read in packet-ldss.c (CVE-2018-11362)

- wireshark: Multiple dissectors could crash (wnpa-sec-2018-36) (CVE-2018-14340)

- wireshark: DICOM dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-39) (CVE-2018-14341)

- wireshark: Bazaar dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-40) (CVE-2018-14368)

- wireshark: Radiotap dissector crash (CVE-2018-16057)

- wireshark: Infinite loop in the MMSE dissector (CVE-2018-19622)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL wireshark package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1047.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135076

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1047.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2018-14368

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7418

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-gnome

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11362, CVE-2018-14340, CVE-2018-14341, CVE-2018-14368, CVE-2018-16057, CVE-2018-19622, CVE-2018-7418

BID: 103157, 104308, 104847, 105174, 106051

CWE: 125, 20, 400, 835

IAVB: 2018-B-0032-S, 2018-B-0072-S, 2018-B-0093-S, 2018-B-0120-S, 2018-B-0154-S

RHSA: 2020:1047

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