SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2019:0688-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123062

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for wireshark to version 2.4.13 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-9214: Avoided a dereference of a null coversation which could make RPCAP dissector crash (bsc#1127367).

CVE-2019-9209: Fixed a buffer overflow in time values which could make ASN.1 BER and related dissectors crash (bsc#1127369).

CVE-2019-9208: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference which could make TCAP dissector crash (bsc#1127370).

Release notes:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.13.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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-688=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-688=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-688=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-688=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-688=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-688=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127367

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127369

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127370

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9208/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9209/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9214/

http://www.nessus.org/u?9938b670

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.13.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123062

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0688-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2019

Updated: 2/3/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwireshark9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwireshark9-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwiretap7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwiretap7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwscodecs1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwscodecs1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwsutil8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwsutil8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-gtk-debuginfo, 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: 3/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9208, CVE-2019-9209, CVE-2019-9214