Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark NWP Dissector

CVE-2015-8734 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The dissect_nwp function in epan/dissectors/packet-nwp.c in the NWP dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 mishandles the packet type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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