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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