Input validation error in Wireshark - CVE-2015-0562
Published: January 10, 2015 / Updated: March 24, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40956
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0562
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the use of packet-scope memory instead of pinfo-scope memory.
Affected software
Wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0562
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1460.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62612
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62673
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3141
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:022
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71921
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-03.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=a559f2a050947f793c00159c0cd4d30f403f217c