Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3671-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:
20 Sep 2016
Affected Packages:
wireshark
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7176, CVE-2016-7177, CVE-2016-7178, CVE-2016-7179, CVE-2016-7180.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for H.225, Catapult DCT2000, UMTS FP and IPMI, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u9.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.0+g5368c50-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.0+g5368c50-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.