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RHEL 4 / 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2010:0360)
high Nessus Plugin ID 46301
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for wireshark.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0360 advisory.Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.
An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the Wireshark SMB and SMB2 dissectors. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2009-4377)
Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the Wireshark LWRES dissector.
If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2010-0304)
Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829)
Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Wireshark version 1.0.11, and resolve these issues. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL wireshark package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0360.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?58268857
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-05.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-01.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
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=531260
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532479
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549578
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 46301
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0360.nasl
Version: 1.25
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/11/2010
Updated: 11/4/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3829
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4377
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Exploitable With
CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)
Core Impact
Metasploit (Wireshark LWRES Dissector getaddrsbyname_request Buffer Overflow (loop))
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829, CVE-2009-4377, CVE-2010-0304