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wireshark -- LWRES vulnerability

Affected packages
wireshark < 1.2.6
wireshark-lite < 1.2.6

Details

VuXML ID bb0a8795-15dc-11df-bf0a-002170daae37
Discovery 2010-01-27
Entry 2010-02-10

Wireshark project reports:

Babi discovered several buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector.

It may be possible to make Wireshark crash remotely or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

References

CVE Name CVE-2010-0304
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/38257/
URL http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html