The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2393 advisory.

    The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture     and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

    Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could     crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or     opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191,     CVE-2015-3810, CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2014-8710,     CVE-2014-8711, CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713, CVE-2014-8714, CVE-2015-0562,     CVE-2015-0563, CVE-2015-0564, CVE-2015-3182, CVE-2015-6243, CVE-2015-6244,     CVE-2015-6245, CVE-2015-6246, CVE-2015-6248)

    The CVE-2015-3182 issue was discovered by Martin ember of Red Hat.

    The wireshark packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.10.14,     which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous     version. (BZ#1238676)

    This update also fixes the following bug:

    * Prior to this update, when using the tshark utility to capture packets     over the interface, tshark failed to create output files in the .pcap     format even if it was specified using the -F option. This bug has been     fixed, the -F option is now honored, and the result saved in the .pcap     format as expected. (BZ#1227199)

    In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

    * Previously, wireshark included only microseconds in the .pcapng format.
    With this update, wireshark supports nanosecond time stamp precision to     allow for more accurate time stamps. (BZ#1213339)

    All wireshark users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     correct these issues and add these enhancements. All running instances of     Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : wireshark (RHSA-2015:2393)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86988

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