CVE-2015-2188

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.

epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-03-08 02:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-27 16:08:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.10.0

1.10.0

Wireshark Wireshark 1.10.1

1.10.1

Wireshark Wireshark 1.10.2

1.10.2

Wireshark 1.10.3

1.10.3

Wireshark 1.10.4

1.10.4

Wireshark 1.10.5

1.10.5

Wireshark 1.10.6

1.10.6

Wireshark 1.10.7

1.10.7

Wireshark 1.10.8

1.10.8

Wireshark 1.10.9

1.10.9

Wireshark 1.10.10

1.10.10

Wireshark Wireshark 1.10.11

1.10.11

Wireshark 1.10.12

1.10.12

Wireshark 1.12.0

1.12.0

Wireshark 1.12.1

1.12.1

Wireshark Wireshark 1.12.2

1.12.2

Wireshark 1.12.3

1.12.3

Mageia 4.0

4.0

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Oracle Solaris 11.2

11.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0117.html

Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:0489

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3210

Third Party Advisory

MDVSA-2015:183

Broken Link

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Third Party Advisory

72942

1031858

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-07.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10844

Issue Tracking

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=b204ff4846fe84b7789893c6b1d9afbdecac5b5d

Issue Tracking, Patch

GLSA-201510-03

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