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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3719-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

21 Nov 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9373, CVE-2016-9374, CVE-2016-9375, CVE-2016-9376.

More information:

It was discovered that wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, contained several vulnerabilities in the dissectors for DCERPC, AllJoyn, DTN, and OpenFlow, that could lead to various crashes, denial-of-service, or execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u10.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.