openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-554)

low Nessus Plugin ID 85609

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Wireshark was updated to fix several security vulnerabilities and bugs.

- Wireshark 1.12.7 [boo#941500] The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :

- Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21

- Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory.
wnpa-sec-2015-22

- Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23

- The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24

- The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25

- The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26

- The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop.
wnpa-sec-2015-27

- Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28

- The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29

- Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7 .html

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 85609

File Name: openSUSE-2015-554.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/25/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2015

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