wireshark
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- Author: Miklos Vajna
- Vulnerable: 1.4.1-1haven1
- Unaffected: 1.4.2-1haven1
A vulnerability has been discovered in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error in the “dissect_unknown_ber()” function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c and can be exploited to cause a stack overflow e.g. via a specially crafted SNMP packet.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/4380