wireshark denial of service

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark
network traffic analyzer, which may lead to denial of service. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

• CVE-2007-6450

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.