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Fedora 17 : wireshark-1.6.6-2.fc17 (2012-5214)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 58710
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2012-04: The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6823)wnpa-sec-2012-06: The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. (Bug 6804)
wnpa-sec-2012-07: The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. (Bug 6833)
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Solution
Update the affected wireshark package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 58710
File Name: fedora_2012-5214.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 4/12/2012
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2012
Reference Information
FEDORA: 2012-5214