CVE-2012-2393 Information

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-diameter.c in the DIAMETER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 does not properly construct certain array data structures which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers incorrect memory allocation.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-diameter.c?r1=42200&r2=42199&pathrev=42200 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42200 http://secunia.com/advisories/49226 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53652 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-09.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7138 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15558