Wireshark 1.8.x < 1.8.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63096

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Wireshark 1.8 is earlier than 1.8.4. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- Errors exist related to the USB, sFlow, EIGRP, 3GPP2 A11, SCTP, ICMPv6, iSCSI, WTP and RTCP dissectors that can allow denial of service attacks by putting the application into an infinite loop. (Bug 7787, 7789, 7800, 7801, 7802, 7844, 7858, 7869, 7889)
- An error exists in the ISAKMP dissector that can allow a malformed packet to crash the application. (Bug 7855)

- An error exists related to pcap-ng host names that can allow disclosure of sensitive information while working with multiple pcap-ng files. (wnpa-2012-30)

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.8.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63096

File Name: wireshark_1_8_4.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/29/2012

Updated: 3/9/2023

Supported Sensors: 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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6052

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark

Required KB Items: SMB/Wireshark/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6052, CVE-2012-6053, CVE-2012-6054, CVE-2012-6055, CVE-2012-6056, CVE-2012-6057, CVE-2012-6058, CVE-2012-6059, CVE-2012-6060, CVE-2012-6061, CVE-2012-6062

BID: 56729

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