An infinite loop flaw has been discovered in wireshark before 2.4.2 in the DOCSIS dissector leading to excessive consumption of CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
An infinite loop flaw has been discovered in wireshark before 2.4.2 in the DOCSIS dissector leading to excessive consumption of CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-46.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14080 https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/23663/
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