RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2009:0313)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35772

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated wireshark packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

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

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malformed dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2009-0599)

Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file. (CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2009-0600)

Users of wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.6, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35772

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0313.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/5/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681, CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2008-4684, CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2008-6472, CVE-2009-0599, CVE-2009-0600

BID: 31838, 32422

CWE: 119, 20, 399

RHSA: 2009:0313

Detections

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