Debian DSA-3516-1 : wireshark - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89878

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for DNP, RSL, LLRP, GSM A-bis OML, ASN 1 BER which could result in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the wireshark packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy18.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u5.

See Also

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

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3516

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89878

File Name: debian_DSA-3516.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8731, CVE-2016-2523, CVE-2016-2530, CVE-2016-2531, CVE-2016-2532, CVE-2016-4417, CVE-2016-4418, CVE-2016-4421

DSA: 3516