Alpine: multiple wireshark packages, tshark: security update to 2.4.4-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 426541

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was
addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks. (CVE-2018-5334)

- In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in
epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length. (CVE-2018-5335)

- In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash.
This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth. (CVE-2018-5336)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426541

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5336

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-5336

BID: 102499, 102500, 102504

IAVB: 2018-B-0014-S

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