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Debian DSA-2644-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65557

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for the MS-MMS, RTPS, RTPS2, Mount, ACN, CIMD and DTLS protocols, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze10.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/wireshark

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2644

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65557

File Name: debian_DSA-2644.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2478, CVE-2013-2480, CVE-2013-2481, CVE-2013-2483, CVE-2013-2484, CVE-2013-2488

BID: 58340, 58351, 58355, 58356, 58357

DSA: 2644