CVE-2015-8725

23Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 5.2%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJan 4

1st PoCDec 16

exploitation probability

5.2%top 8% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The dissect_diameter_base_framed_ipv6_prefix function in epan/dissectors/packet-diameter.c in the DIAMETER dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the IPv6 prefix length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow 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/39003

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References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11792 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aaa28a9d39158ca1033bbd3372cf423abbf4f202 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-43.html