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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2351-1 (wireshark)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to wireshark announced via advisory DSA 2351-1.
Insight
Insight
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 wireshark 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.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.