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wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):
Created:June 1, 2011 Updated:June 2, 2011
Description:

From the Mandriva advisory:

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.17), fixing several security issues:

* Large/infinite loop in the DICOM dissector. (Bug 5876) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Diameter dictionary file could crash Wireshark. Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted snoop file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5912) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

* David Maciejak of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs discovered that malformed compressed capture data could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5908) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Visual Networks file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5934) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:105 2011-06-01

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