Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark: CVE-2014-2281 Moshe Kaplan discovered that the NFS dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2014-2283 It was discovered that the RLC dissector could be crashed, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2014-2299 Wesley Neelen discovered a buffer overflow in the MPEG file parser, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze14. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy10. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.6-1. 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/2014/dsa-2871.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25