Executive Summary

Summary
Title Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201706-12 First vendor Publication 2017-06-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-06-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted network packet using Wireshark, possibly resulting a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-2.2.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-6014 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6014
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-7700 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7700
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-7701 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7701
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-7702 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7702
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-7703 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7703
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-7704 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7704
[ 7 ] CVE-2017-7705 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7705

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201706-12.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-74 Failure to Sanitize Data into a Different Plane ('Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 219
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1634.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-bfdad62cd6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-cdf3f8e8b0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-840.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201706-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-31 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1442-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-4373306257.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-05 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1174-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-503.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-18 Name : An application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by ...
File : macosx_wireshark_2_2_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-18 Name : An application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple d...
File : wireshark_2_2_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3811.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-826.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-08 13:24:58
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-07 00:22:35
  • First insertion