SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:0179-1) (Spectre)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 106293
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for wireshark to version 2.2.12 fixes the following issues :
- CVE-2018-5334: IxVeriWave file could crash (bsc#1075737)
- CVE-2018-5335: WCP dissector could crash (bsc#1075738)
- CVE-2018-5336: Multiple dissector crashes (bsc#1075739)
- CVE-2017-17935: Incorrect handling of '\n' in file_read_line function could have lead to denial of service (bsc#1074171) This release no longer enables the Linux kernel BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpf_jit_enable sysctl, as this would make systems more vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 - (bsc#1075748) Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.2.12 .html
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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-wireshark-13431=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-wireshark-13431=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-wireshark-13431=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.