Fedora 8 : wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc8 (2008-3040)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31829

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to 1.0.0 fixes several security flaws (wireshark crashes, see BZ references).

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 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31829

File Name: fedora_2008-3040.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1070, CVE-2008-1071, CVE-2008-1072, CVE-2008-1561, CVE-2008-1562, CVE-2008-1563

BID: 28025, 28485

CWE: 20, 399

FEDORA: 2008-3040

Detections

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