Saturday, September 4, 2010

New wireshark packages: fix several vulnerabilities

Users of New wireshark packages please be advised of a fix several vulnerablilities vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
DSA 2101-1: [DSA 2101-1] New wireshark packages fix several vulnerabilities
Several implementation errors in the dissector of the Wireshark network

traffic analyzer for the ASN.1 BER protocol and in the SigComp Universal

Decompressor Virtual Machine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in

version 1.0.2-3+lenny10.



For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in

version 1.2.10-1.



We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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