vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2015-8724 : 802.11 decryption crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2016
Added
Apr 25, 2018
Modified
Dec 23, 2024

Description

The AirPDcapDecryptWPABroadcastKey function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not verify the WPA broadcast key length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Solution(s)

wireshark-upgrade-1_12_9wireshark-upgrade-2_0_1
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