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openSUSE Security Update : Wireshark (openSUSE-2015-380)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83806

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Wireshark was updated to 1.10.14 to fix three security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

 - CVE-2015-3811: The WCP dissector could crash while decompressing data (wnpa-sec-2015-14)

 - CVE-2015-3812: The X11 dissector could leak memory (wnpa-sec-2015-15)

 - CVE-2015-3814: The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-17)

Solution

Update the affected Wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930691

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83806

File Name: openSUSE-2015-380.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2015

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, 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: 5/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3814