This host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to heap based buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilities.

Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service via via a malformed packet. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.6.3 or later, For updates refer to http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

The flaws are due to - An error while parsing ERF file format. This could cause wireshark to crash by reading a malformed packet trace file. - An error in dissect_infiniband_common function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-infiniband.c' in the Infiniband dissector, could dereference a NULL pointer.

Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 on Mac OS X

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645

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Updated on 2015-03-25