VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8724

medium
Published 2016-01-04 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The AirPDcapDecryptWPABroadcastKey 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 verify the WPA broadcast key length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39077 dos multiple verified
Google Security Research · 2015-12-22

Wireshark - 'AirPDcapDecryptWPABroadcastKey' Heap Out-of-Bounds Read (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.1+g59ea380-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.1+g59ea380-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.1+g59ea380-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.1+g59ea380-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.1+g59ea380-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.12.0
wiresharkwireshark1.12.1
wiresharkwireshark1.12.2
wiresharkwireshark1.12.3
wiresharkwireshark1.12.4
wiresharkwireshark1.12.5
wiresharkwireshark1.12.6
wiresharkwireshark1.12.7
wiresharkwireshark1.12.8
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0

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.