The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6262-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Wireshark did not properly handle certain NFS packages when certain configuration     options were enabled. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Wireshark to crash, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2020-13164)

    It was discovered that Wireshark did not properly handle certain GVCP packages. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause Wireshark to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-15466)

    It was discovered that Wireshark did not properly handle certain Kafka packages. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Wireshark to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-17498)

    It was discovered that Wireshark did not properly handle certain TCP packages containing an invalid 0xFFFF     checksum. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Wireshark to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2020-25862)

    It was discovered that Wireshark did not properly handle certain MIME packages containing invalid parts.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Wireshark to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2020-25863)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : Wireshark vulnerabilities (USN-6262-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179061

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.0 Jul 31, 2023, 8:08 PM New Plugin Feed: 202307312008