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Authored by kp on Apr 1 2024, 2:08 PM.
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Summary

It's possible for the capture buffer to be smaller than indicated by the
header length. However, pfsync_print() only took the header length into
account. As a result we could read outside of the buffer.

Check that we have at least the expected amount of data before we start
parsing.

PR: 278034
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")

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