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CVE-2015-6248

Published: Aug 24, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not check whether the expected amount of data is available, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5b53445e815fd6b652d49df03ec3d60b088c4fbc

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3fc4a831e035604b0af14ed8a5c9f6596a3448d0

x_refsource_CONFIRM

FEDORA-2015-13945

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11358

x_refsource_CONFIRM

FEDORA-2015-13946

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

openSUSE-SU-2015:1836

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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