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Debian: DSA-2756-1 Moderate: Wireshark Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2013
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Numerous vulnerabilities in Wireshark affecting LDAP, RTPS, and NBAP protocols might result in denial of service or unauthorized code execution.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for LDAP, RTPS and NBAP and in the Netmon file parser, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitr...
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Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for LDAP,
RTPS and NBAP and in the Netmon file parser, which could result in denial
of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.11-6+squeeze12.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.2-5wheezy6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.10.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: wireshark
CVE ID: CVE-2013-5718 CVE-2013-5720 CVE-2013-5722

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