Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark SDP Dissector

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark SDP Dissector

CVE-2015-8717 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The dissect_sdp function in epan/dissectors/packet-sdp.c in the SDP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not prevent use of a negative media count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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