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Debian: DLA-1388-1 Moderate: Wireshark Crash Issues Fixed

debian lts
Calendar Grey May 28, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance your Wireshark installations on Debian to mitigate vulnerabilities that lead to system crashes and potential buffer overflow exploits.
Several issues that could result in a crash within different dissectors have been fixed
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Summary

All issue could be caused by special crafted and malformed packets.


For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



Package: wireshark
Version: 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u11
CVE ID: CVE-2018-9258 CVE-2018-9260 CVE-2018-9261 CVE-2018-9263

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