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CVE-2015-8729

CVE-2015-8729

EPSS 4.3%
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.
Affected products
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public PoCs found — 1
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References
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11794https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=338da1c0ea0b2f8595d3a7b6d6c9548f7da3e27bhttps://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-2015-47.html