PT-2016-3961 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-8713

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.8

Description The issue is related to the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark, where memory for channel ID mappings is not properly reserved. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application through an out-of-bounds memory access via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.8, update to version 1.12.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2215

CVE-2015-8713

DSA-3505-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0109-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 79

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8713 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8720 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8717 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8730 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8712 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8727 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8713 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8713 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8714 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8732 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8713 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8713 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8733 · Security Note