Stack Consumption Vulnerabilities in Wireshark Dissect Functions

Stack Consumption Vulnerabilities in Wireshark Dissect Functions

CVE-2011-1140 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in the dissect_ms_compressed_string and dissect_mscldap_string functions in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted (1) SMB or (2) Connection-less LDAP (CLDAP) packet.

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