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Fedora 42 : wireshark (2025-b979c16d88)

high Nessus Plugin ID 238473

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-b979c16d88 advisory.

 New version 4.4.7

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 Ignoring potential error when using udevadm in %post scriptlet

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 1:wireshark package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-b979c16d88

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 238473

File Name: fedora_2025-b979c16d88.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2025

Updated: 6/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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 Score Source: CVE-2025-5601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5601

FEDORA: 2025-b979c16d88

IAVB: 2025-B-0086