Wireshark DOCSIS Dissector DoS Vulnerability, (Sat, May 8th)

Wireshark issued an update to fix an issue with the DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) dissector. It could be exploited by attackers to cause a DoS when processing malformed data, causing a crash of the application.
Affected Products
Wireshark versions 0.9.6 through 1.0.12 Bulletin can be viewed here.

Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.7. Bulletin can be viewed here.
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot org (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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