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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2351-1 wireshark -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

21 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-4102.

More information:

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 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.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.