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Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10 (2009-1798)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 37388
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Few minor security issues were 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 NFSv4.1: Add support for backchannel decoding - Dynamically registers a callback dissector based on the CREATE_SESSION args. - Supports the decoding of CB_SEQUENCE, CB_RECALL, CB_LAYOUTRECALL operations
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: 37388
File Name: fedora_2009-1798.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 4/23/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:10
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0599, CVE-2009-0600