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openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-226)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81869

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Wireshark was updated to 1.10.13 on openSUSE 13.1 to fix bugs and security issues. Wireshark was updated to 1.12.4 on openSUSE 13.2 to fix bugs and security issues.

The following security issues were fixed in 1.10.13 :

 - The WCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-07 CVE-2015-2188 [bnc#920696]

 - The pcapng file parser could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-08 CVE-2015-2189 [bnc#920697]

 - The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop.
 wnpa-sec-2015-10 CVE-2015-2191 [bnc#920699]

 - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
 https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1 3.html

The following security issues were fixed in 1.12.4 :

 - The following security issues were fixed :

 - The ATN-CPDLC dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-06 CVE-2015-2187 [bnc#920695]

 - The WCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-07 CVE-2015-2188 [bnc#920696]

 - The pcapng file parser could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-08 CVE-2015-2189 [bnc#920697]

 - The LLDP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-09 CVE-2015-2190 [bnc#920698]

 - The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop.
 wnpa-sec-2015-10 CVE-2015-2191 [bnc#920699]

 - The SCSI OSD dissector could go into an infinite loop.
 wnpa-sec-2015-11 CVE-2015-2192 [bnc#920700]

 - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
 https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.4 .html

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920695

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920696

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920697

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920698

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920699

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920700

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.13.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.4.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81869

File Name: openSUSE-2015-226.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2187, CVE-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2190, CVE-2015-2191, CVE-2015-2192