vulnerability: Wireshark up to 1.12.6 epan/packet.c denial of service : 8/25/2015 5:08:22 AM

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Vulnerabilities of scip VulDB

Wireshark up to 1.12.6 epan/packet.c denial of service
8/23/2015 7:00:00 PM

General

scipID: 77420
Affected: Wireshark up to 1.12.6
Published: 08/24/2015
Risk: problematic

Created: 08/25/2015
Entry: 67.3% complete

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Wireshark up to 1.12.6. Affected by this issue is the function dissector_get_string_handle/dissector_get_default_string_handle of the file epan/packet.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability (crash). Impacted is availability.

The weakness was published 08/24/2015. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-6243. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 1.12.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

CVSS

Base Score: 4.3 (CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) [?]
Temp Score: 3.7 (CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:ND) [?]

CPE

Exploiting

Class: Denial of service
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: No

Countermeasures

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: Official fix
0-Day Time: 0 days since found

Upgrade: Wireshark 1.12.7

Timeline

08/24/2015 | Advisory disclosed
08/25/2015 | VulDB entry created
08/25/2015 | VulDB entry updated

Sources

CVE: CVE-2015-6243 (mitre.org) (nvd.nist.org) (cvedetails.com)

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