Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DIS Dissector

CVE-2013-4929 · HIGH Severity

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

The parseFields function in epan/dissectors/packet-dis-pdus.c in the DIS dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.9 and 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not terminate packet-data processing after finding zero remaining bytes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop) via a crafted packet.

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