PT-2016-3970 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8722

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 the SCTP dissector in Wireshark, where the epan/dissectors/packet-sctp.c file does not validate the frame pointer. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted packet.

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-2015-8722

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 · 327

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8717 · Security Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-41.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8727 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2215 · 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
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3505-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8722 · 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6504 · Security Note