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openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-539)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40153

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

wireshark: fixed crashes while reading capture files containing NetScreen data (CVE-2009-0599), Tektronix K12 capture files (CVE-2009-0600) and and a format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0601).

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473828

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40153

File Name: suse_11_0_wireshark-090218.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0599, CVE-2009-0600, CVE-2009-0601

CWE: 119, 134, 20