Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Debian, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in Wireshark. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3956

Affected Products

Debian GNU/Linux sarge
Debian GNU/Linux etch

Solution

Debian GNU/Linux sarge - Upgrade to wireshark version 0.10.10-2sarge10
Debian GNU/Linux etch - Upgrade to wireshark version 0.99.4-5.etch.1

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4004
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00194.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-27 : Initial release

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