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wireshark: denial of service

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2011-0445
Created:February 1, 2011 Updated:April 19, 2011
Description:

From the Pardus advisory:

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201110-02 2011-10-09
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:007 2011-04-19
Fedora FEDORA-2011-0450 2011-01-17
Fedora FEDORA-2011-0460 2011-01-17
Pardus 2011-21 2011-01-31
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