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Debian DSA-2351-1 : wireshark - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56884

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered a buffer overflow in Wireshark's ERF dissector, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny16.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze5.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/wireshark

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2351

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56884

File Name: debian_DSA-2351.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4102

BID: 50486

DSA: 2351