Wireshark RLC parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5164)

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Wireshark RLC parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5164)

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Affected Systems:
Wireshark <1.10.9
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 69002
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-5164
 
Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.
 
In the RLC parser of Wireshark 1.10.0-1.10.8, The rlc_decode_li function in epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c initializes the schema member only after a member is used, this allows remote attackers to cause DOS through specially crafted packets.

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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:
 
Wireshark
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:
 
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-10.html
Https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 9795
Https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb? P = wireshark. git; a = commit; h = ba6eb5c72ffe82ca0e51c7083240975a5b118ad2

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