DSA-3516-1 wireshark -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3516-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8731, CVE-2016-2523, CVE-2016-2530, CVE-2016-2531, CVE-2016-2532, CVE-2016-4417, CVE-2016-4418, CVE-2016-4421.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for DNP, RSL, LLRP, GSM A-bis OML, ASN 1 BER which could result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy18.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u5.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.