Denial of Service Vulnerability in ROHC Dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.5

CVE-2013-1587 · LOW Severity

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

The dissect_rohc_ir_packet function in epan/dissectors/packet-rohc.c in the ROHC dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.5 does not properly handle unknown profiles, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

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