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

The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9 and 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character at the end of a date string, 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

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 ...

The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtextc in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 112x before 1129 and 20x before 201 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character at the end of a date string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file ...

Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=646 The following crash due to a static 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"): Attached are three files which trigger the crash --- cut --- ==5629== ...

CWE-20 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-47.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11794 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=338da1c0ea0b2f8595d3a7b6d6c9548f7da3e27b https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3505 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39001/

CVE-2015-8729

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