Wireshark vulnerability wnpa-sec-2013-40

Description

It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources and crash by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Analysis

The Ixia IxVeriWave file parser could overflow the heap. Discovered by Sachin Shinde.

Affected Applications

Wireshark

CVE References

CVE-2013-4082

Other References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html