CVE-2015-8726

23Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 4.4%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJan 4

1st PoCDec 16

exploitation probability

4.4%top 10% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

wiretap/vwr.c in the VeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate certain signature and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39004

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References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11789 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11791 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=185911de7d337246044c8e99da2f5b4bac74c0d5 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8fa3d463c1bdd9b84c897441e7a5c8ad1f0f292 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-2015-44.html