The host is installed Wireshark and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability.

Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, execution of arbitrary code. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15, 1.4.4 or later. For updates refer to http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a '.pcap' file in the pcap-ng format.

Wireshark version 1.4.3 and prior Wireshark version 1.5.0

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652

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Updated on 2015-03-25