Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in Wireshark AllJoyn Dissector

Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in Wireshark AllJoyn Dissector

CVE-2016-9374 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the AllJoyn dissector could crash with a buffer over-read, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-alljoyn.c by ensuring that a length variable properly tracked the state of a signature variable.

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