The Wireshark developers have announced the release of version 1.2.15 and 1.4.4 of their open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser; maintenance updates address two highly critical security vulnerabilities that could cause the application to crash.
The first issue (CVE-2011-0538), discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team, could lead to memory corruption when reading a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format

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