PT-2016-3988 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-01-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8740

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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 dissect tds7 colmetadata token function in the TDS dissector, which does not validate the number of columns. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow 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.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8740

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 279

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39003 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8740 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-58.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8740 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8740 · Security Note
• 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