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Debian DSA-2274-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55537

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Synopsis

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

Description

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, David Maciejak and others discovered several vulnerabilities in the X.509if and DICOM dissectors and in the code to process various capture and dictionary files, which could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny14.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze2.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/wireshark

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55537

File Name: debian_DSA-2274.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1590, CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175

BID: 47392, 48066

DSA: 2274