Fedora 8 : wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc8 (2008-7894)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34179

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to upstream version 1.0.3. Detailed upstream release notes:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.3.html Security issues addressed in the new upstream version:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa- sec-2008-05.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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34179

File Name: fedora_2008-7894.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/12/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3146, CVE-2008-3932, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934

BID: 31009

CWE: 119, 20

FEDORA: 2008-7894

Detections

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