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Wireshark CAPWAP Dissector DoS

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Disclosed
Apr 28, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module injects a malformed UDP packet to crash Wireshark and TShark 1.8.0 to 1.8.7, as well
as 1.6.0 to 1.6.15. The vulnerability exists in the CAPWAP dissector which fails to handle a
packet correctly when an incorrect length is given.

Authors

Laurent Butti
j0sm1

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/wireshark/capwap
    msf auxiliary(capwap) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(capwap) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(capwap) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(capwap) > run
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