Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ascend File Parser in Wireshark

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ascend File Parser in Wireshark

CVE-2015-8729 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character at the end of a date string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

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