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Wireshark : CVE-2015-8711 : NBAP dissector crashes

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2016
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate conversation data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Solutions

wireshark-upgrade-1_12_9wireshark-upgrade-2_0_1
Title
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