PT-2016-3969 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8721

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 Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.0

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the tvb uncompress function, which can be triggered by a crafted packet with zlib compression, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.8, update to version 1.12.9 or later. For Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.0, update to version 2.0.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2215

CVE-2015-8721

DSA-3505-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0109-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 325

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8717 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8727 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0109-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8719 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8728 · Security Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3505-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8713 · Security Note