Denial of Service Vulnerability in LDSS Dissector in Wireshark

Denial of Service Vulnerability in LDSS Dissector in Wireshark

CVE-2016-6509 · MEDIUM Severity

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

epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c in the LDSS dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.13 and 2.x before 2.0.5 mishandles conversations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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