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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-714-1 wireshark -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

21 Nov 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9373, CVE-2016-9374, CVE-2016-9375, CVE-2016-9376.

More information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Debian Wheezy's Wireshark version:

• CVE-2016-9373

  The DCERPC dissector could crash

• CVE-2016-9374

  The AllJoyn dissector could crash

• CVE-2016-9375

  The DTN dissector could ender an infinite loop

• CVE-2016-9376

  The OpenFlow dissector could crash

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

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