Debian 5.0 DSA-1983-1 Critical: Wireshark Remote Code Execution

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark
network traffic analyzer, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-4337

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the SMB/SMB2 dissectors.

CVE-2010-0304

Several buffer overflows were found in the LWRES dissector.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-3+lenny8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your Wireshark packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automa...