Removing dependency on wireshark metapackage from wireshark-cli

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Added wireshark-qt to wireshark metapackage

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  - New version 2.4.5

  - Contains fixes for CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7418,     CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7420, CVE-2018-7320,     CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7334,     CVE-2018-7335, CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2018-5335,     CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-9616,     CVE-2017-9617, CVE-2017-9766

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c (CVE-2018-6836)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was     addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks. (CVE-2018-5334)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length. (CVE-2018-5335)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash.
    This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth. (CVE-2018-5336)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the GSS-API dissector could crash. This was     addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gssapi.c by ensuring that a valid dissector is called.
    (CVE-2019-10894)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the NetScaler file parser could crash. This was     addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by improving data validation. (CVE-2019-10895)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the DOF dissector could crash. This was addressed     in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by properly handling generated IID and OID bytes. (CVE-2019-10896)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the SRVLOC dissector could crash. This was     addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-srvloc.c by preventing a heap-based buffer under-read.
    (CVE-2019-10899)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was     addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by handling file digests properly. (CVE-2019-10901)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the DCERPC SPOOLSS dissector could crash. This     was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c by adding a boundary check. (CVE-2019-10903)

  - In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector and related     dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/asn1.c by properly restricting buffer increments.
    (CVE-2019-13619)

  - In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.12, the CMS dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/asn1/cms/packet-cms-template.c by ensuring that an object identifier is set to NULL after     a ContentInfo dissection. (CVE-2019-19553)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5, the 6LoWPAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-6lowpan.c by avoiding use of a TVB before its creation. (CVE-2019-5716)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the P_MUL dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-p_mul.c by rejecting the invalid sequence number of zero. (CVE-2019-5717)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could     crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check. (CVE-2019-5718)

  - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the ISAKMP dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-isakmp.c by properly handling the case of a missing decryption data block.
    (CVE-2019-5719)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the TCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/asn1/tcap/tcap.cnf by avoiding NULL pointer dereferences. (CVE-2019-9208)

  - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors could crash. This     was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c by preventing a buffer overflow associated with excessive     digits in time values. (CVE-2019-9209)

  - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, 3.0.0 to 3.0.9, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.15, the BACapp dissector could crash. This     was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bacapp.c by limiting the amount of recursion. (CVE-2020-11647)

  - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations. (CVE-2020-15466)

  - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, 3.0.0 to 3.0.13, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.20, the TCP dissector could crash. This was     addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c by changing the handling of the invalid 0xFFFF checksum.
    (CVE-2020-25862)

  - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, 3.0.0 to 3.0.13, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.20, the MIME Multipart dissector could     crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-multipart.c by correcting the deallocation of invalid     MIME parts. (CVE-2020-25863)

  - Memory leak in Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.8 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file. (CVE-2020-26418)

  - In Wireshark through 3.2.7, the Facebook Zero Protocol (aka FBZERO) dissector could enter an infinite     loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-fbzero.c by correcting the implementation of offset     advancement. (CVE-2020-26575)

  - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.7, the GQUIC dissector could crash. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-gquic.c by correcting the implementation of offset advancement. (CVE-2020-28030)

  - Infinite loop in the RTMPT dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4185)

  - Due to a failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CP2179 packet, Wireshark     versions 2.0.0 through 4.0.7 is susceptible to a divide by zero allowing for a denial of service attack.
    (CVE-2023-2906)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
120757	Fedora 28 : 1:wireshark (2018-bfdad62cd6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	1/6/2021	critical
196702	RHEL 5 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical
196709	RHEL 7 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical
108674	Fedora 27 : 1:wireshark (2018-cdf3f8e8b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/28/2018	1/6/2021	critical
196737	RHEL 8 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical
196731	RHEL 6 : wireshark (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical

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