Amazon Linux AMI : wireshark (ALAS-2023-1785)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178511

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of wireshark installed on the remote host is prior to 1.8.10-25.24. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1785 advisory.

- Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted MSMMS packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, in an unusual configuration, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark (CVE-2023-0667)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update wireshark' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178511

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1785.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/20/2023

Updated: 9/26/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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-2023-0667

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:amazon:linux:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wireshark-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0667

IAVB: 2023-B-0036-S

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