wireshark: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

wireshark

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-2698

Created:

August 8, 2011

Updated:

January 14, 2013

Description:

From the Pardus advisory:

An infinite loop was found in the way ANSI A Interface (IS-634/IOS) dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer processed certain ANSI A MAP capture files. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious packet capture file, it could lead to denial of service (Wireshark hang).

Alerts:

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
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
Oracle	ELSA-2013-0125	2013-01-12
Scientific Linux	SL-wire-20130116	2013-01-16

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