Debian DSA-2871-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 72911

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark :

- CVE-2014-2281 Moshe Kaplan discovered that the NFS dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service.

- CVE-2014-2283 It was discovered that the RLC dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service.

- CVE-2014-2299 Wesley Neelen discovered a buffer overflow in the MPEG file parser, which could lead to 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+squeeze14.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy10.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 72911

File Name: debian_DSA-2871.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/11/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2014

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Wireshark wiretap/mpeg.c Stack Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2281, CVE-2014-2283, CVE-2014-2299

BID: 66066, 66068, 66072

DSA: 2871

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