PT-2016-3984 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-01-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8736

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 2.0.0 through 2.0.1

Description The issue is related to a denial of service caused by a stack-based buffer overflow and application crash. This can be triggered by remote attackers via a crafted file. The mp2t find next pcr function in wiretap/mp2t.c does not reserve memory for a trailer, leading to the overflow.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.1, update to version 2.0.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8736

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 279

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/38997 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8736 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8736 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-54.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8736 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8736 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8736 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8736 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8736 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5592 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1576 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2483 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1578 · Note