CVE-2015-8729 Information

Description

The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not ensure the presence of a ‘\0’ character at the end of a date string which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-47.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11794 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=338da1c0ea0b2f8595d3a7b6d6c9548f7da3e27b https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5