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CVE-2016-2531

This CVE name corresponds to:

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

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CVE-2016-2531 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-2531
Phase	Assigned(20160220)

Description

Off-by-one error in epan/dissectors/packet-rsl.c in the RSL dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers a 0xff tag value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2530.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-10.html
CONFIRM	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11829
CONFIRM	https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=de65fd6b00d0b891930324b9549c93ccfe9cac30