wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as 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.
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
secunia.com/advisories/33872
secunia.com/advisories/34144
secunia.com/advisories/34264
secunia.com/advisories/34344
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501763/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/33690
www.securitytracker.com/id?1021697
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0370
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0313
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1937
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10853
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15041
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00652.html