Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 1.12.x

CVE-2015-6243 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissector-table implementation in epan/packet.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles table searches for empty strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the (1) dissector_get_string_handle and (2) dissector_get_default_string_handle functions.

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