DSA-3505-1 wireshark -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3505-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-7830, CVE-2015-8711, CVE-2015-8712, CVE-2015-8713, CVE-2015-8714, CVE-2015-8715, CVE-2015-8716, CVE-2015-8717, CVE-2015-8718, CVE-2015-8719, CVE-2015-8720, CVE-2015-8721, CVE-2015-8722, CVE-2015-8723, CVE-2015-8724, CVE-2015-8725, CVE-2015-8726, CVE-2015-8727, CVE-2015-8728, CVE-2015-8729, CVE-2015-8730, CVE-2015-8732, CVE-2015-8733.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for Pcapng, NBAP, UMTS FP, DCOM, AllJoyn, T.38, SDP, NLM, DNS, BED, SCTP, 802.11, DIAMETER, VeriWave, RVSP, ANSi A, GSM A, Ascend, NBAP, ZigBee ZCL and Sniffer which could result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy17.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u4.

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.