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wireshark: denial of service

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1592
Created:May 13, 2011 Updated:June 7, 2011
Description: From the CVE entry:

The NFS dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 on Windows uses an incorrect integer data type during decoding of SETCLIENTID calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201110-02 2011-10-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0602-1 2011-06-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0599-1 2011-06-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:083 2011-05-12
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