Fedora 19 : wireshark-1.10.3-2.fc19 (2013-20829)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70790

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Harden dumpcap capabilities

- Ver. 1.10.3

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026534

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026538

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026539

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026540

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026541

http://www.nessus.org/u?9cb8c092

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70790

File Name: fedora_2013-20829.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6336, CVE-2013-6337, CVE-2013-6338, CVE-2013-6339, CVE-2013-6340

BID: 63500, 63501, 63502, 63503, 63504

FEDORA: 2013-20829