ASN.1 BER Dissector Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2013-3556 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The fragment_add_seq_common function in epan/reassemble.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark before r48943 has an incorrect pointer dereference during a comparison, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

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