Division by zero in Wireshark - CVE-2015-8737
Published: January 4, 2016 / Updated: March 24, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40558
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8737
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to divide-by-zero error within The mp2t_open function in wiretap/mp2t.c in the MP2T file parser in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the bit rate, which. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file.
Affected software
Wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2015-8737
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-55.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11821
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e3fc691368af60bbbaec9e038ee6a6d3b7707955
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05