Multiple different vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can cause denial of service. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet or file.

Technical details

WBXML dissector epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c mishandles offsets;

Ethernet dissector epan/dissectors/packet-pktap.c mishandles the packet-header data type;

NetScreen file parser wiretap/netscreen.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing;

CoSine file parser wiretap/cosine.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer;

Toshiba file parser wiretap/toshiba.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing;

USB subsystem mishandles class types;

UMTS FP dissector epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c mishandles the reserved C/T value;

IEEE 802.11 dissector epan/crypt/airpdcap.c mishandles certain length values and lack of an EAPOL_RSN_KEY;

SPOOLS component epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c mishandles unexpected offsets;

WBXML dissector epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c does not restrict the recursion depth;

MMSE, WAP, WBXML, and WSP dissectors epan/dissectors/packet-wap.c omits an overflow check in the tvb_get_guintvar function;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c contains Off-by-one error;

LDSS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c mishandles conversations;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c contains Off-by-one error;

LDSS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c mishandles conversations;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c uses an incorrect integer data type;

NDS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc does not properly maintain a ptvc data structure;

CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options;

These vulnerabilities also related to PacketBB, WSP, MMSE dissectors and epan/proto.c;

Wireshark 1.12 versions earlier than 1.12.13
Wireshark 2 versions earlier than 2.0.5

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The following public exploits exists for this vulnerability:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40195

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40197

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40194

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196