CVE-2015-8717

Published: 04 January 2016

The dissect_sdp function in epan/dissectors/packet-sdp.c in the SDP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not prevent use of a negative media count, 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 ESM (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-2015-8717
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2ddd92b6f8f587325b9e14598658626f3a007c5c
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9887
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-36.html
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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CVE-2015-8717

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