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Debian 8: DSA-3615-1 Critical: Wireshark Denial Of Service Flaws

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2016
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Several weaknesses in Wireshark might result in denial of service or allow execution of arbitrary code. An upgrade is advisable.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP, SPOOLS, IEEE 802.11, UMTS FP, USB, Toshiba, CoSine, NetScreen, WBXML which coul...

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for
PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP, SPOOLS, IEEE 802.11, UMTS FP, USB,
Toshiba, CoSine, NetScreen, WBXML which could result in denial of service
or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u7.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.0.4+gdd7746e-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.4+gdd7746e-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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: wireshark
CVE ID: CVE-2016-5350 CVE-2016-5351 CVE-2016-5353 CVE-2016-5354

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