DSA-3648-1 wireshark -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3648-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6504, CVE-2016-6505, CVE-2016-6506, CVE-2016-6507, CVE-2016-6508, CVE-2016-6509, CVE-2016-6510, CVE-2016-6511.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for NDS, PacketBB, WSP, MMSE, RLC, LDSS, RLC and OpenFlow, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u8.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5+ga3be9c6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5+ga3be9c6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.