CVE-2015-8741

Description

The dissect_ppi function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppi.c in the PPI dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not initialize a packet-header data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2290eba5cb25f927f9142680193ac1158d35506e

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11876

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-59.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3