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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2871-1 (wireshark - several vulnerabilities)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark: CVE-2014-2281 Moshe Kaplan discovered that the NFS dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2014-2283 It was discovered that the RLC dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2014-2299 Wesley Neelen discovered a buffer overflow in the MPEG file parser, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Affected Software
Affected Software
wireshark on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze14. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy10. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.