Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark WCCP Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark WCCP Dissector

CVE-2015-6249 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_wccp2r1_address_table_info function in epan/dissectors/packet-wccp.c in the WCCP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not prevent the conflicting use of a table for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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