Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark IEEE 802.11 Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark IEEE 802.11 Dissector

CVE-2015-3814 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The (1) dissect_tfs_request and (2) dissect_tfs_response functions in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.14 and 1.12.x before 1.12.5 interpret a zero value as a length rather than an error condition, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

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