Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark WaveAgent Dissector

CVE-2015-6246 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_wa_payload function in epan/dissectors/packet-waveagent.c in the WaveAgent dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles large tag values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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