Wireshark Ascend Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

Wireshark is the most popular network protocol parser. In Wireshark versions 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 and 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9, the function ascendseek within wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend parser does not ensure that the date string ends with the '\0' character, which, via a constructed file,...