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Fedora 7 : wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7 (2007-0982)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27686

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- multiple security issues fixed

 - Wireshark could crash when dissecting an HTTP chunked response

 - Wireshark could crash while reading iSeries capture files

 - Wireshark could exhaust system memory while reading a malformed DCP ETSI packet

 - Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed SSL packet

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c17e29e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27686

File Name: fedora_2007-0982.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-0982