Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in epan/dissectors/packet-dec-dnart.c in the DEC DNA Routing Protocol dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the use of packet-scope memory instead of pinfo-scope memory.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-0562 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the verison of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprsie Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (wireshark) | RHSA-2015:1460 | 2015-07-21 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (wireshark) | RHSA-2015:2393 | 2015-11-19 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | wireshark | Will not fix |
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