Wireshark in wheezy-lts
Dear LTS Team,
I would like to suggest (and volunteer for) back-porting
jessie-security's wireshark version to wheezy-lts.
1.8.x security issues are not tracked by upstream and it most probably
contains many unpublished vulnerabilities. Jessie's 1.12.x will be
supported by upstream till the next release around July this year and I
plan back-porting all important security fixes during jessie's support
period like did with other Wireshark versions supported by Debian but
not supported by upstream.
I manage lts-* branches [1] at upstream for the security fixes applied
in Debian.
Switching to jessie's wireshark breaks netexpect [2], but it has only a
few users and it is absent from testing due to being broken in unstable.
Cheers,
Balint
Disclaimer: I'm also in the upstream development team.
[1] https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=heads
[2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/netexpect.html
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