Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark pcapng_read Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark pcapng_read Function

CVE-2015-2189 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Off-by-one error in the pcapng_read function in wiretap/pcapng.c in the pcapng file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via an invalid Interface Statistics Block (ISB) interface ID in a crafted packet.

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