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Fedora 16 : wireshark-1.6.2-1.fc16 (2011-12399)

low Nessus Plugin ID 56354

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several security bugs, see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.2.html for full details.

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-1.6.2.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732947

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5d29e5b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 56354

File Name: fedora_2011-12399.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16, 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: 9/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3266

BID: 49377

FEDORA: 2011-12399