Fedora 13 : wireshark-1.2.17-1.fc13 (2011-7858)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55152

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upgrade to latest release, fixing few security bugs. See http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.17.html.

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 package.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.17.html.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710021

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710039

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710109

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710184

http://www.nessus.org/u?da61cf7c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55152

File Name: fedora_2011-7858.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175

FEDORA: 2011-7858