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openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (wireshark-388)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40320

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted packets could make the SMTP and WLCCP dissectory run into an infinite loop (CVE-2008-5285)

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457525

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40320

File Name: suse_11_1_wireshark-081220.nasl

Version: 1.11

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: Low

Score: 3.6

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, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5285

CWE: 399