KLA11114
Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark 2.4.x

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark 2.4.x. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An infinite loop in the DOCSIS dissector can be exploited remotely via a malformed packet to cause a denial of service;
2. A stack overflow in RTSP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause a denial of service;
3. A string validation error in DMP dissector can be exploited remotely via a malformed packet to cause a denial of service;
4. An error with a case where not all of the BTATT packets have the same encapsulation level in Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause a denial of service;
5. Memory-allocation approach error in MBIM dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet to cause a denial of service;

Technical details

For all vulnerabilities denial of service is a crash

Vulnerability (5) can exhaust system memory

NB: Not every vulnerability already has CVSS rating, so cumulative CVSS rating can be not representative.

Wireshark 2.4.x before 2.4.2

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