Fedora 10 : wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc10 (2009-5382)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 38907

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.0.8 fixes various security flaws.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-03.html

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 package.

See Also

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-03.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501929

http://www.nessus.org/u?fdd4af27

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 38907

File Name: fedora_2009-5382.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1210, CVE-2009-1268, CVE-2009-1269, CVE-2009-1829

BID: 35081

CWE: 134, 20

FEDORA: 2009-5382