Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DICOM Dissector

CVE-2011-1957 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_dcm_main function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcm.c in the DICOM dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an invalid PDU length.

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