CVE-2015-0561

medium
Published 2015-01-10 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

asn1/lpp/lpp.cnf in the LPP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 does not validate a certain index value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-3
debian debianforkyfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-3
debian debiansidfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.10.0
wiresharkwireshark1.10.1
wiresharkwireshark1.10.2
wiresharkwireshark1.10.3
wiresharkwireshark1.10.4
wiresharkwireshark1.10.5
wiresharkwireshark1.10.6
wiresharkwireshark1.10.7
wiresharkwireshark1.10.8
wiresharkwireshark1.10.9
wiresharkwireshark1.10.10
wiresharkwireshark1.10.11
wiresharkwireshark1.12.0
wiresharkwireshark1.12.1
wiresharkwireshark1.12.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.