Pardus alert 2011-43 (wireshark)

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[Pardus-security] [PLSA 2011-43] Wireshark: Uninitialized Pointer 
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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:33:01 +0200
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-43            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-02-14
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has  been  fixed  in  wireshark,  which  allows  remote 
attackers to cause a denial of service or have unspecified other impact 


Description
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CVE-2011-0538: 

Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and  earlier  frees  an  uninitialized  pointer 
during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format,  which  allows 
remote attackers to cause a denial of service  (memory  corruption)  or 
possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file. 





Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    wireshark, all before 1.4.3-40-17


Resolution
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There are update(s) for wireshark. You  can  update  them  via  Package 
Manager or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up wireshark

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16809
  * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0538

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