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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1447-1: Moderate OpenSSL Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2008
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Debian Security Notice DSA-1446-1 pertains to remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities in wireshark. Recommended to upgrade!
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer, which may lead to denial of service.

Summary


The RPL dissector could be tricked into an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-6451

The CIP dissector could be tricked into excessive memory
allocation.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.10-2sarge11. (In Sarge Wireshark used to be called Ethereal).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.4-5.etch.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper config...

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