KLA11073
Denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark
Detect date
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07/18/2017 |
Severity
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Critical |
Description
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A large loop vulnerability was found in the GPRS LLC dissector in Wireshark. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause a denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to read a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service. Technical details Denial of service, which might become a result of exploiting vulnerability described above, occurs because of consuming excessive CPU resources. |
Affected products
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Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.14 |
Solution
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Update to the latest version |
Original advisories
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Impacts
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DoS [?] |
Related products
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Wireshark |
CVE-IDS
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