Wireshark 1.4.5 - 'bytes_repr_len()' Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

EDB-ID:

35873


Author:

rouli

Type:

dos


Platform:

Windows

Date:

2011-06-17


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48389/info

Wireshark is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability caused by a NULL-pointer-dereference error.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the application, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Wireshark 1.4.5 is vulnerable. 

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/35873.pcap