Input validation error in Oracle products - CVE-2015-0561
Published: January 10, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40957
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-2015-0561
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Wireshark.org
SUSE
Oracle
SUSE
Oracle
Affected software:
Wireshark
Opensuse
Oracle Solaris
Wireshark
Opensuse
Oracle Solaris
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
asn1/lpp/lpp.cnf in the LPP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 does not validate a certain index value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted packet.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0561
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62612
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-02.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10773
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8e96830156bea314207b97315ccebd605317f142