CVE-2015-8722

Published: 04 January 2016

epan/dissectors/packet-sctp.c in the SCTP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the frame pointer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and 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-2015-8722
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2259bf8a827088081bef101f98e4983de8aa8099
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=1b32d505a59475d51d9b2bed5f0869d2d154e8b6
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11767
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-41.html
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Debian

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