DSA-2351-1 wireshark -- buffer overflow

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-4102  

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered a buffer overflow in Wireshark's ERF dissector, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny16. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze5. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2351-1 wireshark -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
21 Nov 2011
Affected Packages:
wireshark
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-4102.
More information:

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered a buffer overflow in Wireshark's ERF dissector, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny16.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.