Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark ASN.1 BER Dissector
CVE-2013-3557 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The dissect_ber_choice function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not properly initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.
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