Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc14 (2011-2632)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 52641
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
Several security bugs were fixed in this release :
- CVE-2011-0538: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file
- CVE-2010-3445: stack overflow in BER dissector
- CVE-2011-1143: NULL pointer dereference causing application crash when reading malformed pcap file
- CVE-2011-1140: Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities caused DoS via crafted SMB or CLDAP packet
- CVE-2011-1141: Malformed LDAP filter string causes Denial of Service via excessive memory consumption
- CVE-2011-1138: Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function causes application crash (Denial Of Service)
- CVE-2011-1139: Denial Of Service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field
- CVE-2011-0713: heap-based buffer overflow when reading malformed Nokia DCT3 phone signaling traces
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.