The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.2.8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-4.2.8 advisory.

  - AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.7 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2024-9781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 4.4.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.4.1 advisory.

  - ITS dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture     file (CVE-2024-9780)

  - AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.7 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2024-9781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-1949806a59 advisory.

    New version 4.2.8     Fix for CVE-2024-9781

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 4.2.8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-4.2.8 advisory.

  - AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.7 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2024-9781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3615-1 advisory.

    Update to Wireshark 4.2.8:

    - CVE-2024-9781: Fixed AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash (bsc#1231476).

    - Further features, bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
      https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.2.8.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.4.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.4.1 advisory.

  - ITS dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture     file (CVE-2024-9780)

  - AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.7 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2024-9781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the wireshark package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
208655	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.8 A Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	10/9/2024	12/6/2024	high
208656	Wireshark 4.4.x < 4.4.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	10/9/2024	12/6/2024	high
209536	Fedora 40 : wireshark (2024-1949806a59)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	10/23/2024	12/6/2024	high
208654	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.8 A Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	10/9/2024	12/6/2024	high
209014	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2024:3615-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/15/2024	12/6/2024	high
208657	Wireshark 4.4.x < 4.4.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	10/9/2024	12/6/2024	high
209272	Photon OS 4.0: Wireshark PHSA-2024-4.0-0702	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	10/18/2024	12/6/2024	high
209333	Photon OS 5.0: Wireshark PHSA-2024-5.0-0385	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	10/19/2024	12/6/2024	high

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