Debian DSA 1322-1 Critical: Wireshark Remote DoS Threats

Off-by-one overflows were discovered in the iSeries dissector.

CVE-2007-3392

The MMS and SSL dissectors could be forced into an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-3393

An off-by-one overflow was discovered in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by these problems.
(In Sarge Wireshark used to be called Ethereal).

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 0.99.4-5.etch.0. Packages for the big endian MIPS architecture
are not yet available. They will be provided later.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.6pre1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your Wireshark packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal dat...