Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark Infiniband Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark Infiniband Dissector

CVE-2011-4101 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_infiniband_common function in epan/dissectors/packet-infiniband.c in the Infiniband dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed packet.

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