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Debian DSA-2066-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 47584

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer. It was discovered that NULL pointer dereferences, buffer overflows and infinite loops in the SMB, SMB PIPE, ASN1.1 and SigComp dissectors could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny9.

For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2066

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47584

File Name: debian_DSA-2066.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2283, CVE-2010-2284, CVE-2010-2285, CVE-2010-2286, CVE-2010-2287

BID: 40728

DSA: 2066