Fedora 25 : wireshark (2017-f0509fbf37)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101039

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to the newest upstream release. This release contains only bug fixes, most notably fixes for many CVEs. There are no new features.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f0509fbf37

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101039

File Name: fedora_2017-f0509fbf37.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2017

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