PT-2016-3986 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-01-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8738

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.x through 2.0.0

Description The issue is related to the s7comm decode ud cpu szl subfunc function in the S7COMM dissector, which does not validate the list count in an SZL response. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.0, update to version 2.0.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8738

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 277

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8738 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8738 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-56.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8738 · 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