Debian DSA-2201-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Plugin ID 52948
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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Joernchen, and Xiaopeng Zhang discovered several vulnerabilities in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer.Vulnerabilities in the DCT3, LDAP and SMB dissectors and in the code to parse pcag-ng files could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
Upgrade the wireshark packages.For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny13.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze1.
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 52948
File Name: debian_DSA-2201.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/24/2011
Updated: 1/4/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 6.7
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-0538, CVE-2011-0713, CVE-2011-1139, CVE-2011-1140, CVE-2011-1141
DSA: 2201