CVE-2015-8713

MEDIUM

Wireshark - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c in the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not properly reserve memory for channel ID mappings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted packet.

References (8)

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-32.html

[Issue Tracking] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11606

[Patch] https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67b6d4f7e6f2117b40957fd51518aa2a3e659002

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79816

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 24.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-119 CWE-20

Status draft

Affected Products (9)

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

Timeline

Published Jan 04, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026