PT-2015-7137 · Wireshark+4 · Wireshark+4

Published

2015-08-11

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Updated

2024-06-15

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CVE-2015-6248

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

VectorAV: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 ptvcursor add function in the ptvcursor implementation, which does not check if the expected amount of data is available. This allows 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

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1883
CESA-2015_2393
CVE-2015-6248
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