This host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause Denial of Serivce condition by tricking the user into opening a malformed packet trace file through Wireshark. Impact Level: System/Application.

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.5, http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

A boundary error occurs in the 'daintree_sna_read()' function in the Daintree SNA file parser while processing malformed captured pcap files.

Wireshark version 1.2.0 to 1.2.4 on Linux.

• http://secunia.com/advisories/37842
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3596
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4294

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Updated on 2015-03-25