wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file.
secunia.com/advisories/35884
secunia.com/advisories/37175
secunia.com/advisories/37409
secunia.com/advisories/37477
www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:194
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/22/2
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.securityfocus.com/bid/35748
www.securityfocus.com/bid/36846
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1970
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3061
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.10.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-05.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-01.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0360
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54019
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10403
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6416