SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1046-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84191

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Wireshark was updated to 1.10.14 to fix four security issues.

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :

- CVE-2015-3811: The WCP dissector could crash while decompressing data. (wnpa-sec-2015-14)

- CVE-2015-3812: The X11 dissector could leak memory.
(wnpa-sec-2015-15)

- CVE-2015-3813: The packet reassembly code could leak memory. (wnpa-sec-2015-16)

- CVE-2015-3814: The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. (wnpa-sec-2015-17)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-266=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930689

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930691

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3811/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3812/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3813/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3814/

http://www.nessus.org/u?5d54d932

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84191

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1046-1.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2015-3814

BID: 74631, 74633, 74635, 74637