6LoWPAN Dissector Crash Vulnerability in Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5

6LoWPAN Dissector Crash Vulnerability in Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5

CVE-2019-5716 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5, the 6LoWPAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-6lowpan.c by avoiding use of a TVB before its creation.

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