Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-5716  

An assertion failure has been found in the 6LoWPAN dissector of Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.6, which could be triggered by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An assertion failure has been found in the 6LoWPAN dissector of Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.6, which could be triggered by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

AVG-844 wireshark-cli 2.6.5-1 2.6.6-1 Medium Fixed

10 Jan 2019 ASA-201901-5 AVG-844 wireshark-cli Medium multiple issues

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-01
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15217
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/31311/