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Debian: DSA-4315-1 High Severity: Wireshark Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2018
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Enhance your Wireshark installation to counter crucial weaknesses that threaten its performance and security. Safeguard your system immediately!
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network
protocol analyzer which could result in denial of service or the
execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6.3-1~deb9u1. This update upgrades Wireshark to the 2.6.x
release branch, future security upgrades will be based on this series.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

For the detailed security status of wireshark please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wireshark

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/



Package: wireshark
CVE ID: CVE-2018-16056 CVE-2018-16057 CVE-2018-16058

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