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wireshark: denial of service

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2013-3561
Created:June 7, 2013 Updated:June 12, 2013
Description:

From the CVE database entry:

Multiple integer overflows in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop or application crash) via a malformed packet, related to a crash of the Websocket dissector, an infinite loop in the MySQL dissector, and a large loop in the ETCH dissector.

Alerts:
Mageia MGASA-2013-0168 2013-06-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1084-1 2013-06-26
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1086-1 2013-06-26
Gentoo GLSA 201308-05:02 2013-08-30

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