LDSS Dissector Crash Vulnerability in Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10

CVE-2017-6469 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.

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