PT-2016-3985 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-01-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8737

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 the mp2t open function in the MP2T file parser, which does not validate the bit rate. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and application crash, via a crafted file.

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

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8737

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 277

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8737 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8737 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8737 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-55.html · 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
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6248 · Note