Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DTN Dissector

CVE-2013-1584 · LOW Severity

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

The dissect_version_5_and_6_primary_header function in epan/dissectors/packet-dtn.c in the DTN dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 accesses an inappropriate pointer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

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