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Oracle Linux 5 : Low: / wireshark (ELSA-2007-0066)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67449

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0066 advisory.

 [0.99.5-EL4.1.0.1]
 - Add patch oracle-ocfs2-network.patch

 [0.99.5-1]
 - multiple security issues fixed (#225689)
 - CVE-2007-0459 - The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets
 - CVE-2007-0459 - The HTTP dissector could crash.
 - CVE-2007-0457 - On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.
 - CVE-2007-0456 - On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark and / or wireshark-gnome packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2007-0066.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67449

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0066.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, 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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-0459

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0456, CVE-2007-0457, CVE-2007-0458, CVE-2007-0459

RHSA: 2007:0066