Wireshark Sniffer File Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6429)

Wireshark Sniffer File Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6429)

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Affected Systems:
Wireshark 1.12.0
Description:
Bugtraq id: 69853
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-6429

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.

Wireshark 1.12.0 has a denial of service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to crash affected applications.

<* Source: Lewis Burns
Chaoqiang Zhang
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Suggestion:
Vendor patch:

Wireshark
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:
Https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.1.html
Http://www.wireshark.org

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