Fedora 15 : wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc15 (2011-5621)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53563

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to latest release, fixing few security bugs. See http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.5.html and http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.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/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.5.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697741

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697746

http://www.nessus.org/u?c195660f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53563

File Name: fedora_2011-5621.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, 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: 4/20/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Wireshark packet-dect.c Stack Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1590, CVE-2011-1591

BID: 47392

FEDORA: 2011-5621