PT-2016-3976 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8728

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 Mobile Identity parser in the ANSI A and GSM A dissectors. It improperly uses the tvb bcd dig to wmem packet str function, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a buffer overflow 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.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2215

CVE-2015-8728

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 · 326

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39000 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8717 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8728 · 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
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8728 · Security Note
• 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8728 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3505-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-46.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8729 · Security Note