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CVE-2016-4415

Published: May 1, 2016

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html

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https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647

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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795

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