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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Wireshark vulnerabilities (USN-7552-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 237869

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7552-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle recursion. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2021-39929)

 Roman Donchenko discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4182)

 It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2022-0581)

 It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4186)

 Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0582, CVE-2022-0583, CVE-2022-0586)

 Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0585)

 Jason Cohen discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-3190)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7552-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 237869

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7552-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2025

Updated: 6/5/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0582

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwiretap10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wireshark-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwsutil9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwireshark11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwireshark15, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tshark, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwiretap-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwscodecs2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwiretap8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwireshark13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wireshark-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwsutil-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwsutil11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwireshark-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wireshark-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwireshark-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwiretap12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wireshark-qt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwsutil13

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39929, CVE-2021-4182, CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2021-4186, CVE-2022-0581, CVE-2022-0582, CVE-2022-0583, CVE-2022-0585, CVE-2022-0586, CVE-2022-3190

IAVB: 2021-B-0065-S, 2021-B-0072-S, 2022-B-0006-S, 2022-B-0035-S

USN: 7552-1