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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-538-1 wireshark -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5350, CVE-2016-5351, CVE-2016-5353, CVE-2016-5354, CVE-2016-5355, CVE-2016-5356, CVE-2016-5357, CVE-2016-5359.

More information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wheezy's Wireshark version:

• CVE-2016-5350

  The SPOOLS dissector could go into an infinite loop

• CVE-2016-5351

  The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash

• CVE-2016-5353

  The UMTS FP dissector could crash

• CVE-2016-5354

  Some USB dissectors could crash

• CVE-2016-5355

  The Toshiba file parser could crash

• CVE-2016-5356

  The CoSine file parser could crash

• CVE-2016-5357

  The NetScreen file parser could crash

• CVE-2016-5359

  The WBXML dissector could go into an infinite loop

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u2.

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