5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2015-8730

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

epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9 and 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 does not validate the number of items, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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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 ...
epan/dissectors/packet-nbapc in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 112x before 1129 and 20x before 201 does not validate the number of items, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation and application crash) via a crafted packet ...

Exploits

Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=652 The following SIGSEGV crash due to an invalid memory 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 --- ==31034==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown addres ...