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CVE-2018-18227 - log back

CVE-2018-18227 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Low
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ A flaw has been discovered in wireshark >= 2.6.0 and < 2.6.4 in the MS-WSP dissector where an invalid type could lead to an assertion failure. This could be used by an attacker to crash wireshark by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
References	+ https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-47 + https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15119 + https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commitdiff;h=536fb9403a5f6bcc060aaa2a1f35d8d0225bb1fd
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