CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
71.4%
This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.18), fixing one security issue :
The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets (CVE-2011-2597).
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:118.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(55666);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2597");
script_bugtraq_id(48506);
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2011:118");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2011:118)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.18), fixing
one security issue :
The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x
through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (infinite loop) via malformed packets (CVE-2011-2597)."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dumpcap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wireshark0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwireshark0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:rawshark");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tshark");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wireshark-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/07/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/07/25");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"dumpcap-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64wireshark-devel-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64wireshark0-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libwireshark-devel-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libwireshark0-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"rawshark-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"tshark-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"wireshark-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"wireshark-tools-1.2.18-0.1mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");