Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1258-1 wireshark -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
26 Jan 2018
Affected Packages:
wireshark
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-5336.
More information:

Kamil Frankowicz and Young found that several parsers of wireshark could be crashed by malformed packets.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

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