PT-2016-3981 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2015-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8733

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 ngsniffer process record function in the Sniffer file parser, which does not validate the relationships between record lengths and record header lengths. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds read and application crash, via a crafted file.

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-2015-8733

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/39076 · Exploit
• 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/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8733 · 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/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8733 · 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