RHEL 6 : wireshark (RHSA-2010:0924)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50851

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for wireshark.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0924 advisory.

- wireshark: stack overflow in BER dissector (CVE-2010-3445)

- Wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow in LDSS dissector (CVE-2010-4300)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL wireshark package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0924.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50851

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0924.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/1/2010

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-4300

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3445

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wireshark-gnome, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3445, CVE-2010-4300

BID: 43197, 44987

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2010:0924

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