CVE-2015-8724

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 4.3%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJan 4

1st PoCDec 22

exploitation probability

4.3%top 10% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The AirPDcapDecryptWPABroadcastKey function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not verify the WPA broadcast key length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39077

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References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11826 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=83f2818118ae255db949bb3a4b3a26ebd1c5f7c5 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 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-2015-42.html