Data Handling in Oracle products - CVE-2015-2190
Published: March 8, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40879
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2190
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Wireshark.org
Oracle
Wireshark.org
Oracle
Affected software:
Opensuse
Oracle Solaris
Wireshark
Opensuse
Oracle Solaris
Wireshark
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly handle integer data types greater than 32 bits in size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled by the LLDP dissector.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-2190
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72938
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-09.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10983
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d1865e000ebedf49fc0d9f221a11d6af74360837
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03