Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
Wireshark has been updated to 1.12.7. (FATE#319388)
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :
- Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21 CVE-2015-6241
- Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory.
wnpa-sec-2015-22 CVE-2015-6242
- Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23 CVE-2015-6243
- The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24 CVE-2015-6244
- The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25 CVE-2015-6245
- The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26 CVE-2015-6246
- The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop.
wnpa-sec-2015-27 CVE-2015-6247
- Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28 CVE-2015-6248
- The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29 CVE-2015-6249
- Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7 .html
Also a fix from 1.12.6 in GSM DTAP was backported. (bnc#935158)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-661=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-661=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-661=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.