Debian 8: DLA-1645-1 Moderate: Wireshark Security Update
debian lts
January 28, 2019
Several issues in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, have been found
Topics Covered
Summary
CVE-2019-5719
Mateusz Jurczyk found that a missing encryption block in a packet could
crash the ISAKMP dissector.
CVE-2019-5717
It was found that the P_MUL dissector could crash when a malformed
packet contains an illegal Data PDU sequence number of 0. Such a packet
may not be analysed.
CVE-2019-5716
It was found that the 6LoWPAN dissector could crash when a malformed
packet does not contain IPHC information though the header says it
should.
For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u17.
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
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Package: wireshark
Version: 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u17
CVE ID: CVE-2019-5716 CVE-2019-5717 CVE-2019-5719
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