In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.6 and 3.0.0 to 3.0.13, the BLIP protocol dissector has a NULL pointer dereference because a buffer was sized for compressed (not uncompressed) messages. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-blip.c by allowing reasonable compression ratios and rejecting ZIP bombs.
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 3.0.0 (including) | 3.0.13 (including) |
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 3.2.0 (including) | 3.2.6 (including) |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | xenial | * |