Fedora 16 : wireshark-1.6.6-1.fc16 (2012-5243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58782

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2012-04: The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6823)

wnpa-sec-2012-06: The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. (Bug 6804)

wnpa-sec-2012-07: The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. (Bug 6833)

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: 58782

File Name: fedora_2012-5243.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/19/2012

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1593, CVE-2012-1594, CVE-2012-1595, CVE-2012-1596

BID: 52735, 52736, 52737, 52738

FEDORA: 2012-5243

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