Wireshark 'epan/packet. c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6243)

Wireshark 'epan/packet. c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6243)
Wireshark 'epan/packet. c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6243)

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Affected Systems:

Wireshark Wireshark 1.12.x

Description:

Bugtraq id: 76384
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2015-6243

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.

Wireshark versions earlier than 1.12.7, 'epan/packet. c ''s dissector-table implementation does not properly process empty string searches in the table, which allows remote attackers to exploit this vulnerability to cause DoS (application crash) by constructing data packets ).

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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://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb? P = wireshark. git; a = commit; h = eb1ccbdccde89701f255f921d88992878057477d
Https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 11381
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-23.html

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