Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) Various errors within epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc can be exploited to cause e.g. a crash or an infinite loop via specially crafted NCP packets.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.7 to 1.0.2.

2) An error while uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.14 to 1.0.2.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.3.
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Provided and/or discovered by
1) Reported by Thomas Nielsen in a Wireshark bug report.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html

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