Fedora 11 : wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc11 (2009-9837)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42387

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to Wireshark 1.2.2 fixing multiple security issues:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html * The OpcUa dissector could use excessive CPU and memory. (Bug 3986) Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 1.0.8, 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 * The GSM A RR dissector could crash. (Bug 3893) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 * The TLS dissector could crash on some platforms. (Bug 4008) Versions affected:
1.2.0 to 1.2.1 http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html * The AFS dissector could crash. (Bug 3564) Versions affected: 0.9.2 to 1.2.0

- The Infiniband dissector could crash on some platforms.
Versions affected: 1.0.6 to 1.2.0 * The IPMI dissector could overrun a buffer. (Bug 3559) Versions affected:
1.2.0 * The Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash. (Bug 3572) Versions affected: 1.2.0 * The RADIUS dissector could crash. (Bug 3578) Versions affected: 1.2.0 * The MIOP dissector could crash. (Bug 3652) Versions affected: 1.2.0 * The sFlow dissector could use excessive CPU and memory. (Bug 3570) Versions affected:
1.2.0 (Issues from wnpa-sec-2009-04 does not affect users of Wireshark 1.2.1 packages from updates-testing.)

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: High

ID: 42387

File Name: fedora_2009-9837.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/5/2009

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, 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: 9/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2559, CVE-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2561, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3241, CVE-2009-3242

BID: 35748, 36846, 36408

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-9837

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