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wireshark: denial of service

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2597
Created:July 25, 2011 Updated:August 10, 2011
Description: From the CVE entry:

The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets.

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:1263-1 2011-11-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:1262-1 2011-11-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:1142-1 2011-10-18
Gentoo 201110-02 2011-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2011-9638 2011-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2011-9640 2011-07-23
Pardus 2011-107 2011-08-04
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:118 2011-07-24
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0509-01 2012-04-23
Scientific Linux SL-wire-20120423 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-0509 2012-04-23
CentOS CESA-2012:0509 2012-04-24
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