Fedora 8 : wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc8 (2008-6645)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33553

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to upstream 1.0.2 that fixes several security vulnerabilities:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-04.html

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.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-04.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454970

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454971

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454972

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454973

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454975

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454984

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe85f10b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33553

File Name: fedora_2008-6645.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3137, CVE-2008-3138, CVE-2008-3139, CVE-2008-3140, CVE-2008-3141, CVE-2008-3145

CWE: 20, 200

FEDORA: 2008-6645