Wireshark -- DoS in the BER-based dissectors

Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Wireshark, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion
error in the “dissect_unknown_ber()” function in
epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c and can be exploited to cause a
stack overflow e.g. via a specially crafted SNMP packet.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.0 and
reported in version 1.2.11 and prior and version 1.4.0 and
prior.