| Name | CVE-2015-8731 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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-3516-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.2.2-1 | fixed |
| sid | 4.2.2-1.1 | 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=2930d3105c3ff2bfb1278b34ad10e2e71c3b8fb0
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11829
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-49.html
fix released in 2.0.1 is incomplete, but the rest is tracked under CVE-2016-2530