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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3585-1 wireshark -- security update

Date Reported:

22 May 2016

Affected Packages:

wireshark

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4006, CVE-2016-4079, CVE-2016-4080, CVE-2016-4081, CVE-2016-4082, CVE-2016-4085.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.3+geed34f0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.3+geed34f0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.