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Debian: DSA-4359-1 Critical: Wireshark Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2018
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Enhance your Wireshark installations following the discovery of various security flaws in the network analysis tool on Debian.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code
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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 2.6.5-1~deb9u1.

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/



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Package: wireshark
CVE ID: CVE-2018-12086 CVE-2018-18225 CVE-2018-18226

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