CVE-2015-8721

Description

Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.

References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11548

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cec0593ae6c3bca65eff65741c2a10f3de3e0afe

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3