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CVE-2016-2522

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-03-01	wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2016-2522 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-2522
Phase	Assigned(20160220)

Description

The dissect_ber_constrained_bitstring function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not verify that a certain length is nonzero, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-02.html
CONFIRM	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11828
CONFIRM	https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=9b2f3f7c5c9205381cb72e42b66e97d8ed3abf63