KLA10401 DoS vulnerability in Wireshark

An unspecified vulnerability was found in Wireshark. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed .pcap file.

Original advisories

Related products

Wireshark

CVE list

CVE-2011-1143 warning

Solution

Update to latest version

Wireshark

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• Wireshark versions 1.4.3 and earlier