4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8726

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: 435
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

wiretap/vwr.c in the VeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9 and 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 does not validate certain signature and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

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wireshark wireshark 2.0.0

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

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 ...
wiretap/vwrc in the VeriWave file parser in Wireshark 112x before 1129 and 20x before 201 does not validate certain signature and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file ...

Exploits

Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=643 The following crash due to a stack-based out-of-bounds read can be observed in an ASAN build of Wireshark (current git master), by feeding a malformed file to tshark ("$ /tshark -nVxr /path/to/file"): --- cut --- ==3901==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow ...