The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_cbch.c in the GSM CBCH dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x     before 2.0.3 uses the wrong variable to index an array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) via a crafted packet. (CVE-2016-4082)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

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

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 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
219584	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4082	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	3/4/2025	medium
91288	Debian DSA-3585-1 : wireshark - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/23/2016	1/11/2021	medium
90785	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90786	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90787	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90846	FreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (7e36c369-10c0-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	5/3/2016	1/4/2021	medium
90784	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
91395	Debian DLA-497-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/1/2016	1/11/2021	medium

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