Vulnerability: NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark 2.4.0 Modbus Dissector

Vulnerability: NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark 2.4.0 Modbus Dissector

CVE-2017-13764 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.4.0, the Modbus dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c by adding length validation.

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