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Wireshark Infiniband Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Wireshark is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs in the Infiniband dissector.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.

Wireshark versions 1.6.0 through 1.6.2 and versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 are vulnerable.