Wireshark X.509AF parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2524)

Wireshark X.509AF parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2524)
Wireshark X.509AF parser DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2524)

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Affected Systems:

Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.2

Description:

CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2016-2524

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser.

In some Wireshark versions, epan/dissectors/packet-x509af.c error processes the algorithm ID in the implementation of X.509AF parser. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause DoS (application crash) by constructing packets ).

<* Source: Mateusz Jurczyk
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Suggestion:

Vendor patch:

Wireshark
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb? P = wireshark. git; a = commit; h = 4a2cd6c79ecbf2cb21f985f01ce1c1e3030285ec
Http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-11.html
Https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? Id = 12048

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