openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-SU-2014:1503-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79592

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

wireshark was updated to fix five security issues. 	 These security issues were fixed :

- SigComp UDVM buffer overflow (CVE-2014-8710).

- AMQP crash (CVE-2014-8711).

- NCP crashes (CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713).

- TN5250 infinite loops (CVE-2014-8714).

For openSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 further bug fixes and updated protocol support are described in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.11.html

For openSUSE 13.2 further bug fixes and updated protocol support are described in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.2.html

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79592

File Name: openSUSE-2014-717.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8710, CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8714

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