Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer Compromise

The vulnerability of Wireshark’s dissectframe function, located in the epan/dissectors/packet-frame.c file, stems from the use of negative integers as packet length values. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a service failure abrupt termination of the application by...

PT-2014-1765

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.10.x through 1.10.7 Description The issue arises from the interpretation of negative integers as length values in the dissect frame function, located in epan/dissectors/packet-frame.c, within the frame metadissector of...