Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark LDAP Packet Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark LDAP Packet Dissector

CVE-2011-1141 · MEDIUM Severity

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

epan/dissectors/packet-ldap.c in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via (1) a long LDAP filter string or (2) an LDAP filter string containing many elements.

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