Buffer Overflow in Wireshark's tvb_uncompress Function

Buffer Overflow in Wireshark's tvb_uncompress Function

CVE-2015-8721 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.

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