EDB-39001

functional

Wireshark - ascend_seek Static Out-of-Bounds Read

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype dosauthor Google Security Researchpublished 2015-12-16catalog exploit_db
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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2015-8729USmedium5.5Exploit
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…
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