Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 6LoWPAN IPv6 Packet Parsing

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 6LoWPAN IPv6 Packet Parsing

CVE-2011-1138 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

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