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CVE-2015-8726

CVE-2015-8726

EPSS 4.6%
wiretap/vwr.c in the VeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate certain signature and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 1
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References
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11789https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11791https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=185911de7d337246044c8e99da2f5b4bac74c0d5https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8fa3d463c1bdd9b84c897441e7a5c8ad1f0f292https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-44.html