Fedora Core 6 : wireshark-0.99.5-1.fc6 (2007-216)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24304

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- multiple security issues fixed (#227140)

- CVE-2007-0459 - The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets

- CVE-2007-0459 - The HTTP dissector could crash.

- CVE-2007-0457 - On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.

- CVE-2007-0456 - On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark, wireshark-debuginfo and / or wireshark-gnome packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24304

File Name: fedora_2007-216.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/9/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-216

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