Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DOCSIS CM-STATUS Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DOCSIS CM-STATUS Dissector

CVE-2013-1580 · LOW Severity

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

The dissect_cmstatus_tlv function in plugins/docsis/packet-cmstatus.c in the DOCSIS CM-STATUS dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 uses an incorrect data type for a position variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

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