Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2011-1138

Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

EPSS: 0.033 (87.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References