In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 2.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-2.2.1 advisory.

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0, the NCP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture     file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/CMakeLists.txt by registering this dissector. (CVE-2016-7958)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a     malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-     byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings. (CVE-2016-7957)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a     malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-     byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings. (CVE-2016-7957)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-2.2.1 advisory.

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0, the NCP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture     file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/CMakeLists.txt by registering this dissector. (CVE-2016-7958)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a     malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-     byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings. (CVE-2016-7957)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
311430	Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
219915	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7957	Nessus	Misc.	high
93940	Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high

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CVE-2016-7957

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