Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenSafety Dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x

CVE-2011-3484 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The unxorFrame function in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c in the OpenSafety dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 does not properly validate a certain frame size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and application crash) via a malformed packet.

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