Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1388-1 wireshark -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 May 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-9258, CVE-2018-9260, CVE-2018-9261, CVE-2018-9263, CVE-2018-9268, CVE-2018-9269, CVE-2018-9270, CVE-2018-11358, CVE-2018-11362.

More information:

Several issues that could result in a crash within different dissectors have been fixed. Other issues are related to memory leaks or heap-based buffer overflows.

All issue could be caused by special crafted and malformed packets.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS