Friday, April 18, 2014

Vulnerability In Wireshark

There has been found a vulnerability in Wireshark, free open source program for analyzing network protocols. By exploiting the vulnerability an attacker may be able to make Wireshark crash, hang, or execute code by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Vulnerable versions are: 1.10.0 - 1.10.3

Non vulnerable version of Wireshark can be downloaded here.

More information can be read from the related advisory.

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