PT-2016-3963 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-8715

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by sending a crafted packet. This is due to the lack of checks for empty arguments in the AllJoyn dissector.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2215

CVE-2015-8715

DSA-3505-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0109-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 79

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8715 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8715 · 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
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8715 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8727 · Security Note
• 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8733 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8729 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8724 · Security Note