VDB
CVE-2015-8721
CVE-2015-8721
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.
EPSS 1.70% · 76.3th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.70%
76.3th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | wireshark | 0, 1.10.2-1, 1.10.3-1 |
Timeline
- Jan 4, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 5, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 28, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 20, 2023 EPSS Score
- Nov 3, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8721 third-party-advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cec0593ae6c3bca65eff65741c2a10f3de3e0afe third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11548 third-party-advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8721 third-party-advisory