Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.3-1.fc14 (2011-0450)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 51853
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-3- upgrade to 1.4.3
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.3 .html
- Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-2
- fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)
- Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
- 1.4.2-1
- upgrade to 1.4.2
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2 .html
- Mon Nov 1 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-2
- temporarily disable zlib until https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49 55 is resolved (#643461)
- Fri Oct 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
- upgrade to 1.4.1
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1 .html
- Own the %{_libdir}/wireshark dir (#644508)
- associate *.pcap files with wireshark (#641163)
- Tue Oct 5 2010 jkeating - 1.4.0-2.1
- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757
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/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1.html
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2.html
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.3.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4955
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669441
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 51853
File Name: fedora_2011-0450.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 2/3/2011
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: 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:14
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-0444, CVE-2011-0445
FEDORA: 2011-0450