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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2274-1 (wireshark)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to wireshark announced via advisory DSA 2274-1.
Insight
Insight
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, David Maciejak and others discovered several vulnerabilities in the X.509if and DICOM dissectors and in the code to process various capture and dictionary files, which could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny14. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.17-1
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.