wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Description:

Vendor reports:

On non-Windows systems Wireshark could crash if the HOME environment variable contained sprintf-style string formatting characters. Wireshark could crash while reading a malformed NetScreen snoop file. Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix K12 text capture file.

References:

• URL: <http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html>

Affects:

• ethereal <1.0.6
• ethereal-lite <1.0.6
• tethereal <1.0.6
• tethereal-lite <1.0.6
• wireshark <1.0.6
• wireshark-lite <1.0.6

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