Wireshark gsm rlc/MAC parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6245)

Wireshark gsm rlc/MAC parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6245)
Wireshark gsm rlc/MAC parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6245)

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Affected Systems:

Wireshark Wireshark 1.12.x

Description:

Bugtraq id: 76382
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2015-6245

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.

In Wireshark versions earlier than 1.12.7, the gsm rlc/MAC parser epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_rlcmac.c uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows remote attackers to construct packets, this vulnerability causes DoS (application crash ).

<* Source: Antti Levom & #195; ¤ ki
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Suggestion:

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:

Https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 11358
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-26.html
Https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb? P = wireshark. git; a = commit; h = 5523726e6960fe9d7e301376fd7a94599f65fd42

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