The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

  - The srtp_add_address function in epan/dissectors/packet-rtp.c in the RTP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x     before 1.10.7 does not properly update SRTP conversation data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2014-2907)

  - The dissect_frame function in epan/dissectors/packet-frame.c in the frame metadissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.8 interprets a negative integer as a length value even though it was intended to     represent an error condition, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application     crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2014-4020)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This wireshark update to version 2.2.8 fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2017-11411: The openSAFETY dissectorcould crash or     exhaust system memory because of missing length     validation. (bsc#1049621)

  - CVE-2017-11410: The WBXML dissector could go into an     infinite loop. (bsc#1049255)

  - CVE-2017-11408: The AMQP dissector could crash.
    (bsc#1049255)

  - CVE-2017-11407: The MQ dissector could crash.
    (bsc#1049255)

  - CVE-2017-11406: The DOCSIS dissector could go into an     infinite loop. (bsc#1049255)

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.

This update to Wireshark 2.2.8 fixes some minor vulnerabilities could be used to trigger dissector crashes, infinite loops, or cause excessive use of memory resources by making Wireshark read specially crafted packages from the network or a capture file :

  - CVE-2017-7702,CVE-2017-11410: WBMXL dissector infinite     loop (wnpa-sec-2017-13)

  - CVE-2017-9350,CVE-2017-11411: openSAFETY dissector     memory exhaustion (wnpa-sec-2017-28)

  - CVE-2017-11408: AMQP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2017-34)

  - CVE-2017-11407: MQ dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2017-35)

  - CVE-2017-11406: DOCSIS infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2017-36)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

  - Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_choice function in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x     through 1.2.15 and 1.4.x through 1.4.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop) via vectors involving self-referential ASN.1 CHOICE values. (CVE-2011-1142)

  - The dissector-table implementation in epan/packet.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles table     searches for empty strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash)     via a crafted packet, related to the (1) dissector_get_string_handle and (2)     dissector_get_default_string_handle functions. (CVE-2015-6243)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
199503	RHEL 7 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	critical
102189	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2017:2032-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/4/2017	1/19/2021	high
101970	openSUSE Security Update : Wireshark (openSUSE-2017-840)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/26/2017	1/19/2021	high
102190	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2017:2033-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/4/2017	1/6/2021	high
199531	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	critical

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