It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-120 advisory.

    Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows     denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-4344)

    Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0     to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-4345)

    Excessive loops in multiple dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and ...

    NOTE: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-06.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18711NOTE:
    https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18720NOTE:
    https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18737 (CVE-2023-0411)

    TIPC dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-0412)

    Dissection engine bug in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10  ...

    NOTE: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-03.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18766 (CVE-2023-0413)

    Crash in the EAP dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 allows denial of service via packet injection or     crafted capture file (CVE-2023-0414)

    iSCSI dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-0415)

    GNW dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-0416)

    Memory leak in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-0417)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

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Amazon Linux 2023 : wireshark-cli, wireshark-devel (ALAS2023-2023-120)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173172

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Version 1.3 Dec 17, 2024, 9:25 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 8.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-0412, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-0412" to none) Plugin Feed: 202412170925
Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 5.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-0412, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-0412") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.0 Mar 22, 2023, 12:14 AM New Plugin Feed: 202303220014