Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 2.0.x prior to 2.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - MS-WSP dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector
  - TShark

CVE-2015-8711

epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate conversation data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8714 The dissect_dcom_OBJREF function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcom.c in the DCOM dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not initialize a certain IPv4 data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8716 The init_t38_info_conv function in epan/dissectors/packet-t38.c in the T.38 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not ensure that a conversation exists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8717 The dissect_sdp function in epan/dissectors/packet-sdp.c in the SDP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not prevent use of a negative media count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8718 Double free vulnerability in epan/dissectors/packet-nlm.c in the NLM dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1, when the 'Match MSG/RES packets for async NLM' option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8720 The dissect_ber_GeneralizedTime function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 improperly checks an sscanf return value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8721 Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.

CVE-2015-8723 The AirPDcapPacketProcess function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the relationship between the total length and the capture length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8725 The dissect_diameter_base_framed_ipv6_prefix function in epan/dissectors/packet-diameter.c in the DIAMETER dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the IPv6 prefix length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8729 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.

CVE-2015-8730 epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the number of items, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2015-8733 The ngsniffer_process_record function in wiretap/ngsniffer.c in the Sniffer file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the relationships between record lengths and record header lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2016-2523 The dnp3_al_process_object function in epan/dissectors/packet-dnp.c in the DNP3 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2016-4006 epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2016-4078 The IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly restrict element lists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c and epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c.

CVE-2016-4079 epan/dissectors/packet-pktc.c in the PKTC dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not verify BER identifiers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2016-4080 epan/dissectors/packet-pktc.c in the PKTC dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 misparses timestamp fields, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2016-4081 epan/dissectors/packet-iax2.c in the IAX2 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

CVE-2016-4085 Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string in a packet.

Impact

If Wireshark is launched manually by a user with Advanced Shell ( bash ) access, dissection of specially crafted packets could cause Wireshark to consume excessive resources. Wireshark is not part of normal BIG-IP operation; only users who actively run Wireshark are vulnerable.

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service.

This update also fixes many older less important issues by updating the package to the version found in Debian 8 also known as Jessie.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.0.x prior to 2.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - MS-WSP dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector
  - TShark

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - GSM CBCH dissector
  - IAX2 dissector
  - IEEE 802.11 dissector
  - NCP dissector
  - PKTC dissector

Wireshark development team reports :

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed :

- wnpa-sec-2016-19

The NCP dissector could crash. (Bug 11591)

- wnpa-sec-2016-20

TShark could crash due to a packet reassembly bug. (Bug 11799)

- wnpa-sec-2016-21

The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. (Bug 11824, Bug 12187)

- wnpa-sec-2016-22

The PKTC dissector could crash. (Bug 12206)

- wnpa-sec-2016-23

The PKTC dissector could crash. (Bug 12242)

- wnpa-sec-2016-24

The IAX2 dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 12260)

- wnpa-sec-2016-25

Wireshark and TShark could exhaust the stack. (Bug 12268)

- wnpa-sec-2016-26

The GSM CBCH dissector could crash. (Bug 12278)

- wnpa-sec-2016-27

MS-WSP dissector crash. (Bug 12341)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
91288	Debian DSA-3585-1 : wireshark - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/23/2016	1/11/2021	medium
90785	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
91838	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Multiple Wireshark (tshark) vulnerabilities (K01837042)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	6/27/2016	1/4/2019	medium
91395	Debian DLA-497-1 : wireshark security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/1/2016	1/11/2021	medium
90784	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90787	Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.3 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90786	Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.11 Multiple DoS	Nessus	Windows	4/29/2016	2/18/2025	high
90846	FreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (7e36c369-10c0-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	5/3/2016	1/4/2021	medium

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