Denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark

Beschreibung

Redundant indirection was found in Wireshark. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet.

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Technical details

This vulnerability caused by pcapng_read_if_descr_block function in wiretap/pcapng.c (pcapng pareser) and can be triggered via packet which triggers interface-filter copying.

Ursprüngliche Informationshinweise

• Wireshark advisory

CVE Liste

• CVE-2015-7830
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