Fedora Core 4 : ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.1 (2005-655)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19321

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jul 27 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 0.10.12-1.FC4.1

- update to 0.10.12

- package /usr/sbin/randpkt

- sync with cleanup patch (most of it applied upstream)

- the new release fixes CVE-2005-2361 up to CVE-2005-2367

- Mon May 30 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 0.10.11-3

- ethereal cleanup, patch by Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> (#159107)

- few more cleanups

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ethereal, ethereal-debuginfo and / or ethereal-gnome packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?634e9dec

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19321

File Name: fedora_2005-655.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-gnome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-655