Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service.

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)

  - 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)

  - The decompress_sigcomp_message function in epan/sigcomp-udvm.c in the SigComp UDVM dissector in Wireshark     1.10.x before 1.10.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and     application crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2014-8710)

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

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)

  - 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)

  - The dissect_zbee_secure function in epan/dissectors/packet-zbee-security.c in the ZigBee dissector in     Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 improperly relies on length fields contained in packet data, which allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2015-6244)

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

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 2.0.x prior to 2.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - MS-WSP dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector
  - TShark

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.0.x prior to 2.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - MS-WSP dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector
  - TShark

Wireshark development team reports :

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :

- wnpa-sec-2016-19

The NCP dissector could crash. (Bug 11591)

- wnpa-sec-2016-20

TShark could crash due to a packet reassembly bug. (Bug 11799)

- wnpa-sec-2016-21

The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. (Bug 11824, Bug 12187)

- wnpa-sec-2016-22

The PKTC dissector could crash. (Bug 12206)

- wnpa-sec-2016-23

The PKTC dissector could crash. (Bug 12242)

- wnpa-sec-2016-24

The IAX2 dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 12260)

- wnpa-sec-2016-25

Wireshark and TShark could exhaust the stack. (Bug 12268)

- wnpa-sec-2016-26

The GSM CBCH dissector could crash. (Bug 12278)

- wnpa-sec-2016-27

MS-WSP dissector crash. (Bug 12341)

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.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service.

This update also fixes many older less important issues by updating the package to the version found in Debian 8 also known as Jessie.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u1.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
91288	Debian DSA-3585-1 : wireshark - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/23/2016	1/11/2021	medium
199535	RHEL 5 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	10/23/2024	critical
199531	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	10/23/2024	critical
90785	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	11/20/2019	medium
196731	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	critical
90786	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	3/9/2023	medium
90787	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	3/9/2023	medium
90846	FreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (7e36c369-10c0-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	5/3/2016	1/4/2021	medium
199503	RHEL 7 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	10/23/2024	critical
90784	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	11/20/2019	medium
196702	RHEL 5 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	critical
196709	RHEL 7 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	critical
91395	Debian DLA-497-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/1/2016	1/11/2021	medium

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