KLA11063
Denial of service vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark version 2.2.7. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the DAAP dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed DAAP data to cause a denial of service;
2. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the MP4 dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed MP4 data to cause a denial of service.

Technical details

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_daap_one_tag() function in epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c.

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_mp4_box() function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

Wireshark version 2.2.7

Avoid processing MP4 data and DAAP data with vulnerable Wireshark version.