CVE-2017-17935 (GCVE-0-2017-17935)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-27 07:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The File_read_line function in epan/wslua/wslua_file.c in Wireshark through 2.2.11 does not properly strip '\n' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers the attempted processing of an empty line.
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