Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2590-1 wireshark

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2590-1 wireshark -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

26 Dec 2012

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-4048, CVE-2012-4296.

More information:

Bjorn Mork and Laurent Butti discovered crashes in the PPP and RTPS2 dissectors, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.