Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark's dissect_drda Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark's dissect_drda Function

CVE-2012-3548 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_drda function in epan/dissectors/packet-drda.c in Wireshark 1.6.x through 1.6.10 and 1.8.x through 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a small value for a certain length field in a capture file.

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