Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801743");
  script_version("2024-07-23T05:05:30+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-23 05:05:30 +0000 (Tue, 23 Jul 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-02-15 08:14:35 +0100 (Tue, 15 Feb 2011)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0538");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_name("Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/linux/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial
  of service, execution of arbitrary code.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.4.3 and prior Wireshark version 1.5.0");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a
  '.pcap' file in the pcap-ng format.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15, 1.4.4 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if(version_is_less_equal(version:version, test_version:"1.4.3")||
   version_is_equal(version:version, test_version:"1.5.0")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:"1.2.15/1.4.4/1.5.1", install_path:location);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);