UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8721

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8721

    Published: 4 Jan 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8721

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8721, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cec0593ae6c3bca65eff65741c2a10f3de3e0afe, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11548, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8721

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wireshark

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.10.2-1
    1.10.3-1
    1.10.5-1ubuntu1
    1.10.5-2
    1.10.6-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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