Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647 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 --- ==5869==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x61b00001e95c at pc 0x0000004c1386 bp 0x7fff8c82cbf0 sp 0x7fff8c82c3a0 WRITE of size 1425 at 0x61b00001e95c thread T0 #0 0x4c1385 in __asan_memcpy llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_interceptors.cc:393 #1 0x9c8ab0 in vwr_read_s2_s3_W_rec wireshark/wiretap/vwr.c:1614:5 #2 0x9bc02a in vwr_process_rec_data wireshark/wiretap/vwr.c:2336:20 #3 0x9babf2 in vwr_read wireshark/wiretap/vwr.c:653:10 #4 0x9d64c2 in wtap_read wireshark/wiretap/wtap.c:1314:7 #5 0x535c1a in load_cap_file wireshark/tshark.c:3479:12 #6 0x52c1df in main wireshark/tshark.c:2197:13 0x61b00001e95c is located 0 bytes to the right of 1500-byte region [0x61b00001e380,0x61b00001e95c) allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0x4d6ff8 in __interceptor_malloc llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cc:40 #1 0x7f1f907a8610 in g_malloc (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4e610) #2 0x83fff6 in wtap_open_offline wireshark/wiretap/file_access.c:1105:2 #3 0x53214d in cf_open wireshark/tshark.c:4195:9 #4 0x52bc7e in main wireshark/tshark.c:2188:9 SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_interceptors.cc:393 in __asan_memcpy Shadow bytes around the buggy address: 0x0c367fffbcd0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbce0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbcf0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbd00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbd10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 =>0x0c367fffbd20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[04]fa fa fa fa 0x0c367fffbd30: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c367fffbd40: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x0c367fffbd50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbd60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0c367fffbd70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 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 ==5869==ABORTING --- cut --- The crash was reported at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795. Attached are three files which trigger the crash. Proof of Concept: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39490.zip