Debian Security Advisory DSA 2709-1 (wireshark - several vulnerabilities)

Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for CAPWAP, GMR-1 BCCH, PPP, NBAP, RDP, HTTP, DCP ETSI and in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. 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