Fedora 13 : wireshark-1.2.14-1.fc13 (2011-0460)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 51854

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VPR Score: 5.9

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.14-1

- upgrade to 1.2.14

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1 4.html

- Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.13-2

- fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)

- Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
- 1.2.13-1

- upgrade to 1.2.13

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1 3.html

- Mon Sep 13 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
- 1.2.11-1

- upgrade to 1.2.11

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1 1.html

- Resolves: #632539

- Tue Aug 24 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
- 1.2.10-1

- upgrade to 1.2.10

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1 0.html

- Resolves: #625940 CVE-2010-2287 CVE-2010-2286 CVE-2010-2284 CVE-2010-2283

- Mon May 17 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-3

- removing traling bracket from python_sitearch (#592391)

- Fri May 7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-2

- add libtool patch

- Fri May 7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-1

- use sitearch instead of sitelib to avoid pyo and pyc conflicts

- upgrade to 1.2.8

- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.8 .html

- rebuild with GeoIP support (needs to be turned on in IP protocol preferences)

- bring back -pie

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 51854

File Name: fedora_2011-0460.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Critical

VPR Score: 5.9

CVSS v2.0

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:13

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: 2011-0460