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 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial     of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (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 and allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (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)

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

Detections

Analytics

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 173172

Version 1.0