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Debian DSA-2700-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66767

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for GTPv2, ASN.1 BER, PPP CCP, DCP ETSI, MPEG DSM-CC and Websocket, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy3.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66767

File Name: debian_DSA-2700.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

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:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3555, CVE-2013-3557, CVE-2013-3558, CVE-2013-3559, CVE-2013-3560, CVE-2013-3562

BID: 59992, 59994, 59995, 59998, 59999, 60021

DSA: 2700