Fedora 23 : wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 (2015-13946)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85772

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Enable libnl3 (see rhbz#1207386, rhbz#1247566) - Remove airpcap switch (doesn't have any effect on Linux) - Backport patch no. 11 - Fixed building with F24+ * Ver.
1.12.7

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 wireshark package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253352

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253354

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253355

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253356

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253357

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253359

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253360

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253361

http://www.nessus.org/u?d487724a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85772

File Name: fedora_2015-13946.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6241, CVE-2015-6242, CVE-2015-6243, CVE-2015-6244, CVE-2015-6245, CVE-2015-6246, CVE-2015-6247, CVE-2015-6248, CVE-2015-6249

FEDORA: 2015-13946