CVE-2015-8731

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 16

exploitation probability

4.3%top 10% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The dissct_rsl_ipaccess_msg function in epan/dissectors/packet-rsl.c in the RSL dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not reject unknown TLV types, 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/38996

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References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11829 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2930d3105c3ff2bfb1278b34ad10e2e71c3b8fb0 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3516 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-2015-49.html