The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 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)

  - Multiple integer overflows in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 allow remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to the (1) BACapp and (2) Bluetooth HCI     dissectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2392. (CVE-2012-3825)

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

Wireshark has been updated to 1.12.7. (FATE#319388)

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :

  - Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the     protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21 CVE-2015-6241

  - Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory.
    wnpa-sec-2015-22 CVE-2015-6242

  - Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol     dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23 CVE-2015-6243

  - The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24     CVE-2015-6244

  - The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite     loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25 CVE-2015-6245

  - The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26     CVE-2015-6246

  - The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop.
    wnpa-sec-2015-27 CVE-2015-6247

  - Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length     checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28 CVE-2015-6248

  - The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29     CVE-2015-6249

  - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed     in:
    https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7     .html

Also a fix from 1.12.6 in GSM DTAP was backported. (bnc#935158 CVE-2015-4652)

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.

Updated wireshark packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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 Zember 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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
199535	RHEL 5 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	critical
86288	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1676-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/6/2015	1/19/2021	medium
86289	SUSE SLED11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1676-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/6/2015	1/6/2021	medium
86988	RHEL 7 : wireshark (RHSA-2015:2393)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/20/2015	10/24/2019	medium

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