Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2201-1 wireshark -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
23 Mar 2011
Affected Packages:
wireshark
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0538, CVE-2011-0713, CVE-2011-1139, CVE-2011-1140, CVE-2011-1141.
More information:

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Joernchen, and Xiaopeng Zhang discovered several vulnerabilities in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer. Vulnerabilities in the DCT3, LDAP and SMB dissectors and in the code to parse pcag-ng files could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny13.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.