| 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 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 2.6.8-1.1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 3.2.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1 | |||
| wireshark | source | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u3 | DSA-3367-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| wireshark | source | wheezy | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u1 | DLA-497-1 |
[squeeze] - wireshark <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28.html