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Oracle Linux 5 : wireshark (ELSA-2010-0360)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68032

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0360 advisory.

 [1.0.11-1.0.1.el5_5.5]
 - Add oracle-ocfs2-network.patch

 [1.0.11-1.5]
 - rebuild without smp flags (fixes problems with doc generating)

 [1.0.11-1.4]
 - add erf overflow patch
 - Resolves #532479

 [1.0.11-1.3]
 - bring back pie (patch from Jindrich Novy <[email protected]>)
 - no GUI freeze
 - Resolves: #549583

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected wireshark and / or wireshark-gnome packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2010-0360.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68032

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0360.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4377

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Wireshark LWRES Dissector getaddrsbyname_request Buffer Overflow (loop))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2560, CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563, CVE-2009-3550, CVE-2009-3829, CVE-2009-4377, CVE-2010-0304

BID: 35748, 36591, 36846, 37407, 37985

RHSA: 2010:0360