Package : wireshark Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-3390 CVE-2007-3392 CVE-2007-3393
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer, which may lead to denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-3390
Off-by-one overflows were discovered in the iSeries dissector.
CVE-2007-3392
The MMS and SSL dissectors could be forced into an infinite loop.
CVE-2007-3393
An off-by-one overflow was discovered in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by these problems. (In Sarge Wireshark used to be called Ethereal).
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.4-5.etch.0. Packages for the big endian MIPS architecture are not yet available. They will be provided later.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.6pre1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your Wireshark packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------