Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for LDAP, RTPS and NBAP and in the Netmon file parser, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze12. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy6. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Wireshark is a network 'sniffer' - a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire. Wireshark can decode too many protocols to list here.

wireshark on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2756.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25