Multiple vulnérabilities have been identified in Wireshark (Ethereal), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. These issues are caused by errors when processing malformed HTTP chunked responses, iSeries capture files, or DCP ETSI, SSL, DHCP/BOOTP and MMS packets, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service conditon.
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