Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark DNS Dissector

CVE-2015-8719 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_dns_answer function in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c in the DNS dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 mishandles the EDNS0 Client Subnet option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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