Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=650 The following crash due to a heap-based buffer overflow can be observed in an ASAN build of Wireshark (current git master), by feeding a malformed file to tshark ("$ ./tshark -nVxr /path/to/file"): --- cut --- ==9819==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x603000027b3c at pc 0x00000087416b bp 0x7fff95547770 sp 0x7fff95547768 WRITE of size 1 at 0x603000027b3c thread T0 #0 0x87416a in iseries_parse_packet wireshark/wiretap/iseries.c:820:27 #1 0x870589 in iseries_read wireshark/wiretap/iseries.c:382:10 #2 0x9d64c2 in wtap_read wireshark/wiretap/wtap.c:1314:7 #3 0x535c1a in load_cap_file wireshark/tshark.c:3479:12 #4 0x52c1df in main wireshark/tshark.c:2197:13 0x603000027b3c is located 3 bytes to the right of 25-byte region [0x603000027b20,0x603000027b39) allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0x4d6ff8 in __interceptor_malloc llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cc:40 #1 0x7ff6f1a34610 in g_malloc (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4e610) #2 0x870589 in iseries_read wireshark/wiretap/iseries.c:382:10 #3 0x9d64c2 in wtap_read wireshark/wiretap/wtap.c:1314:7 #4 0x535c1a in load_cap_file wireshark/tshark.c:3479:12 #5 0x52c1df in main wireshark/tshark.c:2197:13 SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow wireshark/wiretap/iseries.c:820:27 in iseries_parse_packet Shadow bytes around the buggy address: 0x0c067fffcf10: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c067fffcf20: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c067fffcf30: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c067fffcf40: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c067fffcf50: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa =>0x0c067fffcf60: fa fa fa fa 00 00 00[01]fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 0x0c067fffcf70: 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 0x0c067fffcf80: fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 0x0c067fffcf90: 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 0x0c067fffcfa0: 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 0x0c067fffcfb0: fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa 00 00 Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes): Addressable: 00 Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Heap left redzone: fa Heap right redzone: fb Freed heap region: fd Stack left redzone: f1 Stack mid redzone: f2 Stack right redzone: f3 Stack partial redzone: f4 Stack after return: f5 Stack use after scope: f8 Global redzone: f9 Global init order: f6 Poisoned by user: f7 Container overflow: fc Array cookie: ac Intra object redzone: bb ASan internal: fe Left alloca redzone: ca Right alloca redzone: cb ==9819==ABORTING --- cut --- The crash was reported at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11798. Attached is a file which triggers the crash. Proof of Concept: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/38992.zip