Debian: DSA-2324-1: wireshark security update

Date 20 Oct 2011

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

The Microsoft Vulnerability Research group discovered that insecure load path handling could lead to execution of arbitrary Lua script code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2324-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                        Moritz Muehlenhoff
October 20, 2011                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : wireshark
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2011-3360 

The Microsoft Vulnerability Research group discovered that insecure
load path handling could lead to execution of arbitrary Lua script code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-3+lenny15. This build will be released shortly.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.11-6+squeeze4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

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