Debian 5.0 DSA-2127-1 High: Wireshark Denial Of Service Threat

debian

November 28, 2010

A flaw has been found in wireshark, a network protocol analyzer

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service debian package upgrade high wireshark

Summary

It was found that the ASN.1 BER dissector was susceptible to a stack
overflow, causing the application to crash.

For the stable distribution (lenny), the problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-3+lenny11.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-3.

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 automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny (stable)

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

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