Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 1.12.x

CVE-2015-6248 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not check whether the expected amount of data is available, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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