It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. Affects 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 and is fixed in upstream 1.8.2 version. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7572 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44288 Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Sorry, this issue only affects rawhide/Fedora 18 which currently provides 1.8.1; earlier versions of Fedora provide 1.6.x.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 848589]
wireshark-1.8.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.