USN-3986-1: Wireshark vulnerabilities

16 May 2019

Wireshark could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic or input files.

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It was discovered that Wireshark improperly handled certain input. A remote or
local attacker could cause Wireshark to crash by injecting malform packets onto
the wire or convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

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