Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark NetScreen File Parser

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark NetScreen File Parser

CVE-2016-5357 · MEDIUM Severity

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

wiretap/netscreen.c in the NetScreen file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

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