Wireshark protocol-tree denial-of-service vulnerability

Wireshark formerly known as Ethereal is a suite of network packet analysis software developed by the Wireshark team. A security vulnerability exists in the 'prototreeaddbytesitem' function in the epan/proto.c file in the protocol-tree implementation of Wireshark versions 1.12.7 prior to 1.12.x. T...

PT-2015-7130

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.6 Description The issue is related to the proto tree add bytes item function in the protocol-tree implementation. It does not properly terminate a data structure after a failure to locate a number within ...