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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.044 (91.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000
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 Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0117.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3210 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03 (vendor-advisory)
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-07.html (Vendor Advisory)