Fedora 9 : wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc9 (2009-5339)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 38904

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to 1.0.8 fixes various security flaws.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-02.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-03.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: 38904

File Name: fedora_2009-5339.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1210, CVE-2009-1268, CVE-2009-1269, CVE-2009-1829

BID: 34291, 34457, 35081

CWE: 134, 20

FEDORA: 2009-5339

Detections

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