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Fedora Core 5 : wireshark-0.99.5-1.fc5 (2007-207)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24303

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- multiple security issues fixed (#227140)

 - CVE-2007-0459 - The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets

 - CVE-2007-0459 - The HTTP dissector could crash.

 - CVE-2007-0457 - On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.

 - CVE-2007-0456 - On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.

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 wireshark, wireshark-debuginfo and / or wireshark-gnome packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba67002f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24303

File Name: fedora_2007-207.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5740, CVE-2007-0456, CVE-2007-0457, CVE-2007-0458, CVE-2007-0459

FEDORA: 2007-207