The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0125 advisory.

    Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It     is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

    A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Wireshark handled     Endace ERF (Extensible Record Format) capture files. If Wireshark opened a     specially-crafted ERF capture file, it could crash or, possibly, execute     arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. (CVE-2011-4102)

    Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could     crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or     opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2175,     CVE-2011-2698, CVE-2012-0041, CVE-2012-0042, CVE-2012-0066, CVE-2012-0067,     CVE-2012-4285, CVE-2012-4289, CVE-2012-4290, CVE-2012-4291)

    The CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2175, and CVE-2011-4102 issues     were discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response     Team.

    This update also fixes the following bugs:

    * When Wireshark starts with the X11 protocol being tunneled through an SSH     connection, it automatically prepares its capture filter to omit the SSH     packets. If the SSH connection was to a link-local IPv6 address including     an interface name (for example ssh -X [ipv6addr]%eth0), Wireshark parsed     this address erroneously, constructed an incorrect capture filter and     refused to capture packets. The Invalid capture filter message was     displayed. With this update, parsing of link-local IPv6 addresses is fixed     and Wireshark correctly prepares a capture filter to omit SSH packets over     a link-local IPv6 connection. (BZ#438473)

    * Previously, Wireshark's column editing dialog malformed column names when     they were selected. With this update, the dialog is fixed and no longer     breaks column names. (BZ#493693)

    * Previously, TShark, the console packet analyzer, did not properly analyze     the exit code of Dumpcap, Wireshark's packet capturing back end. As a     result, TShark returned exit code 0 when Dumpcap failed to parse its     command-line arguments. In this update, TShark correctly propagates the     Dumpcap exit code and returns a non-zero exit code when Dumpcap fails.
    (BZ#580510)

    * Previously, the TShark -s (snapshot length) option worked only for a     value greater than 68 bytes. If a lower value was specified, TShark     captured just 68 bytes of incoming packets. With this update, the -s     option is fixed and sizes lower than 68 bytes work as expected. (BZ#580513)

    This update also adds the following enhancement:

    * In this update, support for the NetDump protocol was added. (BZ#484999)

    All users of Wireshark are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,     which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this     enhancement. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the     update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 5 : wireshark (RHSA-2013:0125)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63408

Version 1.20