openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2018-972)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 117330

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for wireshark to version 2.4.9 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed (bsc#1106514) :

 - CVE-2018-16058: Bluetooth AVDTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-44)

 - CVE-2018-16056: Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-45)

 - CVE-2018-16057: Radiotap dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-46)

Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.9.html

Solution

Update the affected wireshark packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106514

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.9.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117330

File Name: openSUSE-2018-972.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2018/09/06

Modified: 2018/09/06

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwireshark9, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwireshark9-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwiretap7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwiretap7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwscodecs1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwscodecs1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwsutil8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwsutil8-debuginfo, 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-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2018/09/05

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16056, CVE-2018-16057, CVE-2018-16058