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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70322
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 15 FEDORA-2011-12403 (wireshark)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to wireshark
announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-12403.

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

Update Information:

This update fixes several security bugs, see
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.9.html for full details.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #732947 - CVE-2011-3266 Wireshark proto_tree_add_item DoS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732947

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-12403

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-3266
BugTraq ID: 49377
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49377
Bugtraq: 20110728 Wireshark 1.6.1 Malformed IKE Packet Denial of Service (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519049/100/0/threaded
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15042
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025875
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8351
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2011:1262 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00021.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2011:1263 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00022.html
XForce ISS Database: wireshark-prototreeadditem-dos(69411)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69411
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