Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10 (2009-7998)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43015

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebased to 1.2.x, fixing several security flaws, see the security advisory for details:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.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.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512953

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512987

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512992

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513008

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513033

http://www.nessus.org/u?22a35dc4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43015

File Name: fedora_2009-7998.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2009

Reference Information

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

BID: 34291, 34457, 35748, 36846

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-7998