Upstream information
Description
Integer signedness error in the vwr_read_rec_data_ethernet function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet-trace file that triggers a buffer overflow.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.4 (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 776083 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:1067-1, published Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:08:33 +0200 (CEST)