wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service. Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file.
secunia.com/advisories/32355
secunia.com/advisories/34144
securityreason.com/securityalert/4462
securitytracker.com/id?1021069
shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/wireshark.html
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/31468
www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2872
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0313
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2926
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45505
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10955
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14705
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6622