Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2597 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2011-2597 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2597 Assigned: 20110629 Reference: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-09.html Reference: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-10.html Reference: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-11.html Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48506 Reference: SECTRACK:1025738 Reference: http://securitytracker.com/id?1025738 Reference: SECUNIA:45086 Reference: http://secunia.com/advisories/45086 Reference: XF:wireshark-lucent-dos(68335) Reference: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/68335 The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 719782]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0509.html
Statement: This issue did not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.