PT-2015-7135 · Wireshark+4 · Wireshark+4

Antti Levomäki · Published 2015-08-11 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-6246

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.6

Description The issue is related to the dissect wa payload function in the WaveAgent dissector, which mishandles large tag values. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.6, update to version 1.12.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1883

CESA-2015_2393

CVE-2015-6246

DLA-497-1

DSA-3367-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

RHSA-2015:2393

RHSA-2015_2393

SUSE-SU-2015:1676-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1676-2

SUSE-SU-2015:1713-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 350

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3811 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2189 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3367-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1883 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6245 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3813 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-6246 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8712 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6244 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7830 · Security Note
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• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6246 · Vendor Advisory
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