Wireshark Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities-01 (Jan 2016) - Mac OS X
🗓️ 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 112 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark - dissect_diameter_base_framed_ipv6_prefix Stack Based Buffer Overflow | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | zdt | |
| Wireshark - memcpy (get_value / dissect_btatt) SIGSEGV | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | zdt | |
| Wireshark - file_read (wtap_read_bytes_or_eof/mp2t_find_next_pcr) Stack Based Buffer Overflow | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | zdt | |
| Wireshark - wmem_alloc Assertion Failure | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | zdt | |
| wireshark-cli: denial of service | 9 Jan 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| wireshark-gtk: denial of service | 9 Jan 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| wireshark-qt: denial of service | 9 Jan 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| CVE-2015-8735 | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2015-8736 | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2015-8739 | 16 Dec 201500:00 | – | circl |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.806944");
script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8742", "CVE-2015-8741", "CVE-2015-8739", "CVE-2015-8740",
"CVE-2015-8738", "CVE-2015-8736", "CVE-2015-8735", "CVE-2015-8734");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2016-12-07 18:29:00 +0000 (Wed, 07 Dec 2016)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-01-11 11:59:19 +0530 (Mon, 11 Jan 2016)");
script_name("Wireshark Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities-01 (Jan 2016) - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to
- 'dissect_CPMSetBindings' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c'
script in the MS-WSP dissector does not validate the column size.
- 'dissect_ppi' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-ppi.c' script
in the PPI dissector does not initialize a packet-header data structure.
- 'ipmi_fmt_udpport' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi.c'
script in the IPMI dissector improperly attempts to access a packet scope.
- 'dissect_tds7_colmetadata_token' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-tds.c'
script in the TDS dissector does not validate the number of columns.
- 's7comm_decode_ud_cpu_szl_subfunc' function in
'epan/dissectors/packet-s7comm_szl_ids.c' script in the S7COMM dissector does not
validate the list count in an SZL response.
- 'mp2t_find_next_pcr' function in 'wiretap/mp2t.c' script
in the MP2T file parser does not reserve memory for a trailer.
- 'get_value' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-btatt.c'
script in the Bluetooth Attribute (aka BT ATT) dissector uses an incorrect
integer data type.
- 'dissect_nwp' function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-nwp.c'
script in the NWP dissector mishandles the packet type.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
attackers to conduct denial of service attack.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 2.0.x before 2.0.1
on Mac OS X.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.0.1 or
later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-60.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-56.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11820");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11817");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/detected");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_equal(version:vers, test_version:"2.0.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.0.1", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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