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RHEL 8 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 199495

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 8 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

 - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

 - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks. (CVE-2018-5334)

 - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length. (CVE-2018-5335)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1482807e

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd415663

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 199495

File Name: redhat_unpatched_wireshark-rhel8.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 10/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6836

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-5336, CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2019-10894, CVE-2019-10895, CVE-2019-10896, CVE-2019-10899, CVE-2019-10901, CVE-2019-10903, CVE-2019-12295, CVE-2019-13619, CVE-2019-16319, CVE-2019-19553, CVE-2019-5716, CVE-2019-5717, CVE-2019-5718, CVE-2019-5719, CVE-2019-9208, CVE-2019-9209, CVE-2020-11647, CVE-2020-13164, CVE-2020-15466, CVE-2020-25862, CVE-2020-25863, CVE-2020-26418, CVE-2020-26421, CVE-2020-26575, CVE-2020-28030, CVE-2020-7045, CVE-2020-9428, CVE-2020-9430, CVE-2020-9431, CVE-2021-22207, CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2023-0411, CVE-2023-0412, CVE-2023-0413, CVE-2023-0417, CVE-2023-0667, CVE-2023-1161, CVE-2023-1992, CVE-2023-1993, CVE-2023-1994, CVE-2023-2906, CVE-2023-4511, CVE-2023-4512, CVE-2023-4513, CVE-2023-5371, CVE-2023-6174, CVE-2023-6175, CVE-2024-24476, CVE-2024-2955