vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5351: wireshark multiple issues

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 7, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles the lack of an EAPOL_RSN_KEY, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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