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CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8721

Published: 04/01/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9 and 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.

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wireshark wireshark 1.12.4

wireshark wireshark 1.12.5

wireshark wireshark 1.12.0

wireshark wireshark 1.12.2

wireshark wireshark 1.12.1

wireshark wireshark 1.12.7

wireshark wireshark 1.12.6

wireshark wireshark 1.12.3

wireshark wireshark 1.12.8

Vendor Advisories

Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3505-1 wireshark -- security update
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for Pcapng, NBAP, UMTS FP, DCOM, AllJoyn, T38, SDP, NLM, DNS, BED, SCTP, 80211, DIAMETER, VeriWave, RVSP, ANSi A, GSM A, Ascend, NBAP, ZigBee ZCL and Sniffer which could result in denial of service For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version ...
Red Hat: CVE-2015-8721
Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlibc in Wireshark 112x before 1129 and 20x before 201 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression ...

References

CWE-20https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11548http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79814https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cec0593ae6c3bca65eff65741c2a10f3de3e0afehttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3505
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