| Name | CVE-2015-8729 |
| Description | The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character at the end of a date string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3505-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.4.7-1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 4.4.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - wireshark <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=338da1c0ea0b2f8595d3a7b6d6c9548f7da3e27b
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11794
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-47.html