Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:042)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61947

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark :

- The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash.

- The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop.

- The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data.

- The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash.

This advisory provides the latest version of Wireshark (1.6.6) which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61947

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2012-042.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 9/6/2012

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark-tools, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2011, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dumpcap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:rawshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2012

Reference Information

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

BID: 52735, 52736, 52737, 52738

MDVSA: 2012:042

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