Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5740 - Protocol Dissectors Denial of Service vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.3

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-207.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(24303);
  script_version ("1.16");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5740", "CVE-2007-0456", "CVE-2007-0457", "CVE-2007-0458", "CVE-2007-0459");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-207");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : wireshark-0.99.5-1.fc5 (2007-207)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"  - multiple security issues fixed (#227140)

    - CVE-2007-0459 - The TCP dissector could hang or crash
      while reassembling HTTP packets

  - CVE-2007-0459 - The HTTP dissector could crash.

    - CVE-2007-0457 - On some systems, the IEEE 802.11
      dissector could crash.

  - CVE-2007-0456 - On some systems, the LLT dissector could
    crash.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-February/001377.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ba67002f"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected wireshark, wireshark-debuginfo and / or
wireshark-gnome packages."
  );
  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:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wireshark-gnome");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/02/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/02/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"wireshark-0.99.5-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.5-1.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"wireshark-gnome-0.99.5-1.fc5")) 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-gnome");
}

• name	Shane Shaffer
  organization	G2, Inc.

• name	Shane Shaffer
  organization	G2, Inc.

• name	Shane Shaffer
  organization	G2, Inc.

• name	Aharon Chernin
  organization	SCAP.com, LLC

• name	Dragos Prisaca
  organization	G2, Inc.

• comment	The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  oval	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782

• comment	CentOS Linux 3.x
  oval	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651

• comment	The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  oval	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831

• comment	CentOS Linux 4.x
  oval	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636

• comment	Oracle Linux 4.x
  oval	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990