Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wireshark package, versions [0,1.10.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318246
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed8 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-2189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.10.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Off-by-one error in the pcapng_read function in wiretap/pcapng.c in the pcapng file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via an invalid Interface Statistics Block (ISB) interface ID in a crafted packet.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1