The installed version of Wireshark is 1.2.x less than 1.2.14 or 1.4.x less than 1.4.3.  Such versions are affected by the following vulnerabilities :
  - An error exists in the MAC-LTE dissector that allows a     series of malformed packets to cause a buffer overflow.
    (5530)

  - An error exists in the ENTTEC dissector that allows a     series of malformed packets to cause a buffer overflow.
    (5539)

  - An error exists in the ASN.1 BER dissector that allows     a series of malformed packets to make Wireshark exit     prematurely. (5537)

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the ENTTEC dissector may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201110-02 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets on a network       being monitored by Wireshark, entice a user to open a malformed packet       trace file using Wireshark, or deploy a specially crafted Lua script for       use by Wireshark, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code,       or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Updated wireshark packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

An array index error, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow, was found in the Wireshark ENTTEC dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark.
(CVE-2010-4538)

Users of Wireshark should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running instances of Wireshark must be restarted for the update to take effect.

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2011-03:01 advisory.

    Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
    This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line     utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged     separately to GTK+ package.
    Security issues fixed with this release:
    CVE-2010-4538     Buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-enttec.c in Wireshark 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ENTTEC DMX packet     with Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression.

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

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

- Wed Jan 5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -     1.4.2-2

    - fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)

    - Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com>
      - 1.4.2-1

    - upgrade to 1.4.2

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2       .html

    - Mon Nov 1 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -       1.4.1-2

    - temporarily disable zlib until       https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49       55 is resolved (#643461)

  - Fri Oct 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> -     1.4.1-1

    - upgrade to 1.4.1

    - see       http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1       .html

    - Own the %{_libdir}/wireshark dir (#644508)

    - associate *.pcap files with wireshark (#641163)

    - Tue Oct 5 2010 jkeating - 1.4.0-2.1

    - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
51458	Wireshark < 1.2.14 / 1.4.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	1/12/2011	3/30/2026	high
51531	Debian DSA-2144-1 : wireshark - buffer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/17/2011	1/4/2021	high
56426	GLSA-201110-02 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	10/10/2011	1/6/2021	critical
51452	RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : wireshark (RHSA-2011:0013)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	1/11/2011	1/14/2021	high
284095	MiracleLinux 3 : wireshark-1.0.15-1.3.0.1.AXS3 (AXSA:2011-03:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/14/2026	1/14/2026	critical
51515	Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.2-2.fc14 (2011-0128)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/14/2011	1/11/2021	high

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