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Fedora 42 : wireshark (2025-f810869906)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278402

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-f810869906 advisory.

 New version 4.6.1 Beware of the move of files from /usr/lib64/wireshark/extcap/ to /usr/libexec/wireshark/extcap. Any custom user scripts should be moved too.

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-f810869906

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278402

File Name: fedora_2025-f810869906.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2025

Updated: 12/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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 Score Source: CVE-2025-13674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13499

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13499, CVE-2025-13674

FEDORA: 2025-f810869906

IAVB: 2025-B-0193-S