CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8728

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-01-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-01-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The Mobile Identity parser in (1) epan/dissectors/packet-ansi_a.c in the ANSI A dissector and (2) epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_a_common.c in the GSM A dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 improperly uses the tvb_bcd_dig_to_wmem_packet_str function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 1.12.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.2 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.3 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.4 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.5 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.6 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.7 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.8 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References