DescriptionMurray McAllister
2014-09-17 06:08:54 UTC
An infinite loop issue was discovered in Wireshark's HIP dissector. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume an excessive amount of CPU by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
This is reported to affect version 1.12.0. This version is not shipped in Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
External References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html