Fedora 7 : wireshark-0.99.7-1.fc7 (2007-4690)

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 29766

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VPR Score: 5.9

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

upgrade to 0.99.7 fixes various security flaws.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397251

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397271

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397281

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397291

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397311

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397321

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397331

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397341

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397351

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397371

http://www.nessus.org/u?97d7f7e2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29766

File Name: fedora_2007-4690.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2007/12/24

Updated: 2021/01/11

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Critical

VPR Score: 5.9

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2007/12/21

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2007/11/23

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6111, CVE-2007-6112, CVE-2007-6113, CVE-2007-6114, CVE-2007-6115, CVE-2007-6116, CVE-2007-6117, CVE-2007-6118, CVE-2007-6119, CVE-2007-6120, CVE-2007-6121

BID: 26532

FEDORA: 2007-4690

CWE: 20, 119, 189