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