Fedora 20 : wireshark-1.10.9-1.fc20 (2014-9112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77072

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Ver. 1.10.9; Security fix for CVE-2014-5164, CVE-2014-5165, CVE-2014-5163, CVE-2014-5161, CVE-2014-5162

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=1125761

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125763

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125766

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125767

http://www.nessus.org/u?e20c89f1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77072

File Name: fedora_2014-9112.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/8/2014

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, 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: 8/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5161, CVE-2014-5162, CVE-2014-5163, CVE-2014-5164, CVE-2014-5165

BID: 69000, 69001, 69002, 69003, 69005

FEDORA: 2014-9112