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Fedora 16 : wireshark-1.6.3-1.fc16 (2011-15290)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56813

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several security bugs, see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/= relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html for full details. This update fixes wireshark-devel subpackage. See bug #746655 for details.
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Solution

Update the affected wireshark package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746655

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750652

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/=

http://www.nessus.org/u?99f77fa9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56813

File Name: fedora_2011-15290.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-15290