Summary
Bjorn Mork and Laurent Butti discovered crashes in the PPP and RTPS2 dissectors, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.
Insight
Wireshark is a network 'sniffer' - a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire. Wireshark can decode too many protocols to list here.
Affected
wireshark on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-4048, CVE-2012-4296 -
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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