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wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0041 CVE-2012-0042 CVE-2012-0043
Created:January 23, 2012 Updated:January 27, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla [1], [2], [3]:

Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes for many packet capture file formats. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This is corrected in upstream 1.4.11 and 1.6.5.

Wireshark was improperly handling NULL pointers when displaying packet information which could lead to a crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This is corrected in upstream 1.4.11 and 1.6.5.

The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This is corrected in upstream 1.4.11 and 1.6.5.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-0435 2012-01-22
Fedora FEDORA-2012-0440 2012-01-24
Debian DSA-2395-1 2012-01-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0295-1 2012-02-23
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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