The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 2.4.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-2.4.11 advisory.

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was     addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by adjusting a buffer boundary. (CVE-2018-19627)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This     was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows. (CVE-2018-19622)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the LBMPDM dissector could crash. In addition, a remote     attacker could write arbitrary data to any memory locations before the packet-scoped memory. This was     addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lbmpdm.c by disallowing certain negative values. (CVE-2018-19623)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the PVFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-pvfs2.c by preventing a NULL pointer dereference. (CVE-2018-19624)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in     epan/tvbuff_composite.c by preventing a heap-based buffer over-read. (CVE-2018-19625)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Wireshark 2.4.x < 2.4.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119417

Version 1.9

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Version 1.9 Oct 8, 2026, 2:26 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202610080226
Version 1.8 May 2, 2026, 1:15 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202605020115
Version 1.7 Mar 30, 2026, 9:17 PM Logic Changes (modernized plugin) Plugin Feed: 202603302117