Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Joernchen, and Xiaopeng Zhang discovered several vulnerabilities in the Wireshark network traffic analyzer.
Vulnerabilities in the DCT3, LDAP and SMB dissectors and in the code to parse pcag-ng files could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
Upgrade the wireshark packages.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-3+lenny13.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze1.