Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 13246] Uninitialized memcmp on data in daintree-sna.c

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:15:42 +0000

changed bug 13246


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Comment # 14 on bug 13246 from
(In reply to Peter Wu from comment #1)
> Confirmed, this is not an exploitable issue though since the read is limited
> to the buffer size.

The worst-case situation is, I think, that the comparison will *happen* to
succeed on a file that's *not* a Daintree SNA file because the junk on the
stack *happens* to match.  Unlikely, but the code was wrong and needed to be
fixed anyway.


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