Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in LDSS Dissector in Wireshark

Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in LDSS Dissector in Wireshark

CVE-2018-11362 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by avoiding a buffer over-read upon encountering a missing '\0' character.

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