The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7015 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: RTPS dissector crash (CVE-2023-0666)

    * wireshark: VMS TCPIPtrace file parser crash (CVE-2023-2856)

    * wireshark: NetScaler file parser crash (CVE-2023-2858)

    * wireshark: XRA dissector infinite loop (CVE-2023-2952)

    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 8.9 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : wireshark (RHSA-2023:7015)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185660

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