5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. Not properly determining the defragmentation state in a case of an insufficient snapshot length in fragment_add_work function allows remote attackers to crash the application through memory consumption via a crafted packet.
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0631.html
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3277
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/74633
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-16.html
access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html
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access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0631
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11129
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222895
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222902
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238166
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240675
code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=c35f2ccb4433718416551cc7a85afb0860529d57
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03