Debian DSA-2590-1 : wireshark - several vulnerabilities

low Nessus Plugin ID 63335

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Bjorn Mork and Laurent Butti discovered crashes in the PPP and RTPS2 dissectors, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze8.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/wireshark

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 63335

File Name: debian_DSA-2590.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/27/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4048, CVE-2012-4296

BID: 54649, 55035

DSA: 2590