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GLSA-202402-09 : Wireshark: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189979

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202402-09 (Wireshark: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 - RTPS dissector memory leak in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.8 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.16 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-5371)

 - SSH dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2023-6174)

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

Solution

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-analyzer/wireshark-4.0.11

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-09

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915224

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917421

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189979

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202402-09.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/4/2024

Updated: 2/5/2024

Supported Sensors: 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-2023-6174

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:gentoo:linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5371, CVE-2023-6174