CentOS 3 / 4 : wireshark (CESA-2006:0658)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22337

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic.

Bugs were found in Wireshark's SCSI and SSCOP protocol dissectors.
Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-4330, CVE-2006-4333)

An off-by-one bug was found in the IPsec ESP decryption preference parser. Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-4331)

Users of Wireshark or Ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.3, which is not vulnerable to these issues. These packages also fix a bug in the PAM configuration of the Wireshark packages which prevented non-root users starting a capture.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22337

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0658.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:wireshark-gnome, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4330, CVE-2006-4331, CVE-2006-4333

CWE: 399

RHSA: 2006:0658

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