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Debian DLA-826-1 : wireshark security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 97231

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was denial of service vulnerability in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer.

A malformed NATO Ground Moving Target Indicator Format ('STANAG 4607') capture file could cause a memory exhausion/infinite loop.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in wireshark version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/02/msg00015.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/wireshark

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97231

File Name: debian_DLA-826.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwiretap2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwsutil-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwiretap-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwireshark-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwsutil2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6014