UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8742

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8742

    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8742

    Published: 4 Jan 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8742

    Summary:

    Details: The dissect_CPMSetBindings function in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c in the MS-WSP dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the column size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a crafted packet.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8742, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d48b0eff28c995947ac3f8d842ddd9b50dd5798d, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11931, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-60.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8742

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wireshark

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~ubuntu14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1

    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
    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8742 | CVE-DB