Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 1.8.x

CVE-2013-3558 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_ccp_bsdcomp_opt function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP CCP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not terminate a bit-field list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

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