Debian Security Advisory DSA 3002-1 (wireshark - security update)

Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for Catapult DCT2000, IrDA, GSM Management, RLC ASN.1 BER, which could result in denial of service.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy11. 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