CVE-2015-8712

Published: 04 January 2016

The dissect_hsdsch_channel_info function in epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c in the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not validate the number of PDUs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
wireshark Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Not vulnerable
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (2.0.2+ga16e22e-1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8712
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2ae329a47b7f0ac94089c23e79c6b8bc18ba80ea
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11602
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-32.html
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Debian

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