SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2013:0238-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83573

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update to 1.8.4 fixes the following issues :

- Wireshark could leak potentially sensitive host name resolution information when working with multiple pcap-ng files. (wnpa-sec-2012-30, CVE-2012-5592 )

- The USB dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-31, CVE-2012-5593 )

- The sFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(npa-sec-2012-32, CVE-2012-5594 )

- The SCTP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-33, CVE-2012-5595 )

- The EIGRP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-34, CVE-2012-5596 )

- The ISAKMP dissector could crash. (wnpa-sec-2012-35, CVE-2012-5597 )

- The iSCSI dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-36, CVE-2012-5598 )

- The WTP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-37, CVE-2012-5599 )

- The RTCP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-38, CVE-2012-5600 )

- The 3GPP2 A11 dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-39, CVE-2012-5601 )

- The ICMPv6 dissector could go into an infinite loop.
(wnpa-sec-2012-40, CVE-2012-5602 )

Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed at http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.4.html

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp2-wireshark-7240

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-wireshark-7240

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-wireshark-7240

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp2-wireshark-7240

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83573

File Name: suse_SU-2013-0238-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5592, CVE-2012-5593, CVE-2012-5594, CVE-2012-5595, CVE-2012-5596, CVE-2012-5597, CVE-2012-5598, CVE-2012-5599, CVE-2012-5600, CVE-2012-5601, CVE-2012-5602

BID: 56729

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