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F5: CVE-2015-8721: K01837042: Multiple Wireshark (tshark) vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 24, 2016
Added
Jun 17, 2026
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest
Title
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