4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8731

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

The dissct_rsl_ipaccess_msg function in epan/dissectors/packet-rsl.c in the RSL dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9 and 2.0.x prior to 2.0.1 does not reject unknown TLV types, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read 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 DNP, RSL, LLRP, GSM A-bis OML, ASN 1 BER which could result in denial of service For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 182-5wheezy18 For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1121+g01b65bf-4 ...
The dissct_rsl_ipaccess_msg function in epan/dissectors/packet-rslc in the RSL dissector in Wireshark 112x before 1129 and 20x before 201 does not reject unknown TLV types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet ...

Exploits

Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=660 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"): --- cut --- ==7557==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on ...