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wireshark: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2010-2994
Created:September 1, 2010 Updated:April 19, 2011
Description: From the Debian advisory:

Several implementation errors in the dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer for the ASN.1 BER protocol and in the SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201110-02 2011-10-09
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:007 2011-04-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0010-2 2011-01-12
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:001 2011-01-11
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:002 2011-01-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0010-1 2011-01-04
Debian DSA-2101-1 2010-08-31

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