Successful exploitation could result in denial of service condition or application crash by injecting a series of malformed packets or by convincing the victim to read a malformed packet. Impact Level : Application

Upgrade to wireshark 1.0.3 or later. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Wireshark versions 1.0.2 and prior on Linux (All).

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31674
• http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25