ELA-126-1 wireshark security update

multiple DoS vulnerabilities

2019-06-02
Packagewireshark
Version1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u18
Related CVEs CVE-2017-9345 CVE-2017-9352 CVE-2017-9617 CVE-2017-13767 CVE-2019-12295


Several vulnerabilities have been found in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer.

CVE-2017-9345: infinite loop in DNS dissector.

CVE-2017-9352: infinite loop in Bazaar dissector.

CVE-2017-9617: stack exhaustion in adissect_daap_one_tag (DAAP dissector).

CVE-2017-13767: infinite loop in MSDP dissector.

CVE-2019-12295: stack overflow in the dissection engine.

These vulnerabilities might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause denial of service (DoS) via a crafted packet or PCAP file.



For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u18.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.