Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.17), fixing several security issues:
* Large/infinite loop in the DICOM dissector. (Bug 5876) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.
* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Diameter dictionary file could crash Wireshark. Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.
* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted snoop file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5912) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.
* David Maciejak of Fortinet&
#039
s FortiGuard Labs discovered that
malformed compressed capture data could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5908) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.
* Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a corrupted Visual Networks file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5934) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.
Affected
wireshark on Mandriva Linux 2010.1,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64