Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2011:105)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54940

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.17), fixing several security issues :

- Large/infinite loop in the DICOM dissector. (Bug 5876) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Diameter dictionary file could crash Wireshark. Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted snoop file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5912) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

- David Maciejak of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs discovered that malformed compressed capture data could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5908) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Visual Networks file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5934) Versions affected:
1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54940

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2011-105.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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:mandriva:linux:dumpcap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:rawshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark-tools, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1957, CVE-2011-1958, CVE-2011-1959, CVE-2011-2174, CVE-2011-2175

BID: 48066

MDVSA: 2011:105