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Fedora 9 : wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9 (2009-1877)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 35933
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Minor security issues are fixed in new version of wireshark.Security-related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.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-2009-01.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485888
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 35933
File Name: fedora_2009-1877.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/17/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0599, CVE-2009-0600