Vulnerability in Mageia
CVE-2015-2188
epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.
EPSS: 0.044 (90.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mageia — versions 4.0
- Oracle Linux — versions 7
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.2
- Wireshark — versions 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
- Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)