CVE-2011-2597 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063586.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063591.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00022.html http://secunia.com/advisories/45086 http://secunia.com/advisories/45574 http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025738 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:118 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48506 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-09.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-10.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-11.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68335 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14794