Fedora 15 : wireshark-1.4.8-1.fc15 (2011-9638)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55807

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Wireshark 1.4.8 fixes the following vulnerabilities :

The Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite loop.
CVE-2011-2597. The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop. CVE-2011-2698.

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: Medium

ID: 55807

File Name: fedora_2011-9638.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/10/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: 3.7

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

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2597, CVE-2011-2698

BID: 48506, 49071

FEDORA: 2011-9638

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