DSA-3811-1 wireshark -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3811-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Mar 2017

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5596, CVE-2017-5597, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-6467, CVE-2017-6468, CVE-2017-6469, CVE-2017-6470, CVE-2017-6471, CVE-2017-6472, CVE-2017-6473, CVE-2017-6474.

More information:

It was discovered that wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, contained several vulnerabilities in the dissectors for ASTERIX, DHCPv6, NetScaler, LDSS, IAX2, WSP, K12 and STANAG 4607, that could lead to various crashes, denial-of-service or execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.5+g440fd4d-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.