The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 3.2.6. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-3.2.6 advisory.

  - The Kafka dissector could crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed     packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. (CVE-2020-17498)

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

New version 3.2.6, Security fix for CVE-2020-17498

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.

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues :

  - Update to wireshark 3.2.7 :

  - CVE-2020-25863: MIME Multipart dissector crash     (bsc#1176908)

  - CVE-2020-25862: TCP dissector crash (bsc#1176909)

  - CVE-2020-25866: BLIP dissector crash (bsc#1176910)

  - CVE-2020-17498: Kafka dissector crash (bsc#1175204)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202008-14 (Wireshark: Denial of service)

    A double free error was discovered in Wireshark&rsquo;s Kafka dissector.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a       malformed packet or enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace       file, causing a Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues :

Update to wireshark 3.2.7 :

  - CVE-2020-25863: MIME Multipart dissector crash     (bsc#1176908)

  - CVE-2020-25862: TCP dissector crash (bsc#1176909)

  - CVE-2020-25866: BLIP dissector crash (bsc#1176910)

  - CVE-2020-17498: Kafka dissector crash (bsc#1175204)

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.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 3.2.6. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-3.2.6 advisory.

  - The Kafka dissector could crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed     packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. (CVE-2020-17498)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
139573	Wireshark 3.2.x < 3.2.6 A Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	8/13/2020	6/3/2021	medium
139932	Fedora 32 : 1:wireshark (2020-7f91f10f2b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/28/2020	6/3/2021	medium
139931	Fedora 31 : 1:wireshark (2020-2981a0224d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/28/2020	6/3/2021	medium
142838	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2020-1878)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/12/2020	11/20/2020	high
139890	GLSA-202008-14 : Wireshark: Denial of service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	8/27/2020	6/3/2021	medium
142829	openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2020-1882)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/12/2020	11/20/2020	high
143863	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2020:3166-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/9/2020	1/13/2021	high
139572	Wireshark 3.2.x < 3.2.6 A Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	8/13/2020	6/3/2021	medium

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