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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : wireshark (RHSA-2006:0726)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23677

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic.

Several flaws were found in Wireshark's HTTP, WBXML, LDAP, and XOT protocol dissectors. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-4805, CVE-2006-5468, CVE-2006-5469, CVE-2006-5740)

A single NULL byte heap based buffer overflow was found in Wireshark's MIME Multipart dissector. Wireshark could crash or possibly execute arbitrary arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark.
(CVE-2006-4574)

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.4, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark and / or wireshark-gnome packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-4574

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-4805

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-5468

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-5469

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-5740

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0726

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23677

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0726.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2006

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4574, CVE-2006-4805, CVE-2006-5468, CVE-2006-5469, CVE-2006-5740

BID: 20762

RHSA: 2006:0726