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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2395-1 (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 2395-1.
Insight
Insight
Laurent Butti discovered a buffer underflow in the LANalyzer dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2012-0068) This update also addresses several bugs, which can lead to crashes of Wireshark. These are not treated as security issues, but are fixed nonetheless if security updates are scheduled: CVE-2011-3483, CVE-2012-0041, CVE-2012-0042, CVE-2012-0066 and CVE-2012-0067. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.5-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.