openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-478)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84657

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Wireshark was updated to 1.12.6 to fix two security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-4651: The WCCP dissector crashed when reading specially crafted packages from the network or a capture files (wnpa-sec-2015-19, boo#935157).

- CVE-2015-4652: The GSM DTAP dissector crashed when reading specially crafted packages from the network or a capture file (wnpa-sec-2015-20, boo#935158).

This update also contains further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.6.html

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935157

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935158

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.6.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84657

File Name: openSUSE-2015-478.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:novell:opensuse:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4651, CVE-2015-4652