Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 802.11 Dissector

CVE-2015-8724 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The AirPDcapDecryptWPABroadcastKey function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not verify the WPA broadcast key length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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