Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark HIP Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark HIP Dissector

CVE-2014-6426 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_hip_tlv function in epan/dissectors/packet-hip.c in the HIP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.1 does not properly handle a NULL tree, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

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