Fedora Core 3 : ethereal-0.10.14-1.FC3.1 (2006-005)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62260

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Jan 3 2006 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 0.10.14-1.FC4.1

- upgrade to 0.10.14

- fix CVE-2005-3313 Ethereal IRC dissector DoS (#172298)

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 ethereal, ethereal-debuginfo and / or ethereal-gnome packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c688339a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62260

File Name: fedora_2006-005.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-gnome, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-005