Debian DSA-2756-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69885

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for LDAP, RTPS and NBAP and in the Netmon file parser, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze12.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy6.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69885

File Name: debian_DSA-2756.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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, 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: 9/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5718, CVE-2013-5720, CVE-2013-5722

BID: 62315, 62319, 62321

DSA: 2756

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