Wireshark - 'call_dissector()' Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

Author: Wireshark
type: dos
platform: multiple
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date_added: 2012-04-19 
date_updated: 2016-11-12 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2012-1593;OSVDB-80711 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52735/info

Wireshark is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability caused by a NULL-pointer-dereference error.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the application, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

The following Wireshark versions are vulnerable:

1.4.0 through 1.4.11
1.6.0 through 1.6.5

PoC: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/18758.pcap