PT-2015-7916 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2015-08-25 · Updated 2015-08-25

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions prior to 1.12.7

Description A security issue exists where a malformed packet trace could cause Wireshark to crash or go into an infinite loop. Several other bugs have also been fixed.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.12.7, update to version 1.12.7 to resolve the issue.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2015-0323

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 14

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0323.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0323 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-27.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-22.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-26.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-24.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/news/20150812.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-23.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-21.html · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16582 · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-25.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-29.html · Note