Fedora 12 : wireshark-1.2.5-3.fc12 (2009-13592)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43592

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Various fixes were provided in wireshark 1.2.5 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.5.html for more details. Enhancements - introduced -devel package with autoconf support - enable Lua support Fedora Bug Fixes - the root warning dialog no longer shows up The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa- sec-2009-09.html - The Daintree SNA file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug 4294) CVE-2009-4376 - The SMB and SMB2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 4301) CVE-2009-4377 - The IPMI dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 4319) The following bugs have been fixed: - Wireshark does not graph rtp streams. (Bug 3801) - Wireshark showing extraneous data in a TCP stream. (Bug 3955) - Wrong decoding of gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974) - TTE dissector bug. (Bug 4247) - Upper case in Lua pref symbol causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4255) - OpenBSD 4.5 build fails at epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c. (Bug 4258) - Incorrect display of stream data using 'Follow tcp stream' option. (Bug 4288) - Custom RADIUS dictionary can cause a crash. (Bug 4316) Updated Protocol Support - DAP, eDonkey, GTP, IPMI, MIP, RADIUS, RANAP, SMB, SMB2, TCP, TTE, VNC, X.509sat Updated Capture File Support - Daintree SNA.

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: 43592

File Name: fedora_2009-13592.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/27/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, 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: 12/23/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4376, CVE-2009-4377, CVE-2009-4378

BID: 37407

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-13592

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