[Secure-testing-team] Bug#613202: CVE-2011-0538

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at debian.org
Sun Feb 13 13:59:08 UTC 2011


Package: wireshark
Severity: important
Tags: security

Please see https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652

This has been assigned CVE-2011-0538. Since this can only be exploited
by enticing someone to open a malformed pcap file, but doesn't warrant
a DSA. We can either queue up the fix for a future Wireshark DSA or
fix it through the 6.0.1 point update.

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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