Wireshark vulnerability wnpa-sec-2015-47

Description

It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Analysis

The Ascend file parser could crash. Discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk.

Affected Applications

Wireshark

CVE References

CVE-2015-8729

Other References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-47.html