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RHEL 9 : wireshark (RHSA-2023:2373)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175456

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for wireshark.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2373 advisory.

 The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

 Security Fix(es):

 * wireshark: f5ethtrailer Infinite loop in legacy style dissector (CVE-2022-3190)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2023:2373.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d99636d

http://www.nessus.org/u?ecefa061

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083581

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160648

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2373

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175456

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2373.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2023

Updated: 11/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3190

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-cli, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3190

CWE: 835

IAVB: 2022-B-0035-S

RHSA: 2023:2373