Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark MP2T Dissector
CVE-2012-1596 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The mp2t_process_fragmented_payload function in epan/dissectors/packet-mp2t.c in the MP2T dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.12 and 1.6.x before 1.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a packet containing an invalid pointer value that triggers an incorrect memory-allocation attempt.
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