5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
73.1%
Multiple flaws were found in Wireshark. 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-2014-6429 , CVE-2014-6430 , CVE-2014-6431 , CVE-2014-6432)
Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2014-6421 , CVE-2014-6422 , CVE-2014-6423 , CVE-2014-6424 , CVE-2014-6425 , CVE-2014-6426 , CVE-2014-6427 , CVE-2014-6428)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-446.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(79295);
script_version("1.5");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-6421", "CVE-2014-6422", "CVE-2014-6423", "CVE-2014-6424", "CVE-2014-6425", "CVE-2014-6426", "CVE-2014-6427", "CVE-2014-6428", "CVE-2014-6429", "CVE-2014-6430", "CVE-2014-6431", "CVE-2014-6432");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2014-446");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:1676");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : wireshark (ALAS-2014-446)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Multiple flaws were found in Wireshark. 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-2014-6429 , CVE-2014-6430 , CVE-2014-6431 , CVE-2014-6432)
Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark
could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a
network, or opened a malicious dump file. (CVE-2014-6421 ,
CVE-2014-6422 , CVE-2014-6423 , CVE-2014-6424 , CVE-2014-6425 ,
CVE-2014-6426 , CVE-2014-6427 , CVE-2014-6428)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-446.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update wireshark' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wireshark");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wireshark-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wireshark-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/18");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"wireshark-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"wireshark-devel-1.8.10-8.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "wireshark / wireshark-debuginfo / wireshark-devel");
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6421
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6422
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6423
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6424
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6425
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6426
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6427
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6428
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6429
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6430
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6431
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6432
alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-446.html