Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3615-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

02 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5350, CVE-2016-5351, CVE-2016-5353, CVE-2016-5354, CVE-2016-5355, CVE-2016-5356, CVE-2016-5357, CVE-2016-5359.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP, SPOOLS, IEEE 802.11, UMTS FP, USB, Toshiba, CoSine, NetScreen, WBXML which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u7.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.4+gdd7746e-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.4+gdd7746e-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.