wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to the (1) ANSI MAP, (2) ASF, (3) IEEE 802.11, (4) IEEE 802.3, and (5) LTP dissectors.
secunia.com/advisories/49226
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080
www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.0.html
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.0.html
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.0.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-08.html
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7118
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7119
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7120
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7124
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659661
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711024
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715560
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750712
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832021
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889346
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15604
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1569.html