CVE-2015-6248

Name	CVE-2015-6248
Description	The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not check whether the expected amount of data is available, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-497-1, DSA-3367-1
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wireshark (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch	2.2.6+g32dac6a-2+deb9u3	fixed
	buster, sid	2.6.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
wireshark	source	(unstable)	1.12.7+g7fc8978-1	medium
wireshark	source	jessie	1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u3	medium	DSA-3367-1
wireshark	source	squeeze	(unfixed)	end-of-life
wireshark	source	wheezy	1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u1	medium	DLA-497-1

[squeeze] - wireshark <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28.html