CVE-2015-0559 Use after free in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Wireshark via crafted WCCP packets due to use-after-free errors in the dissector.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-0559?
CVE-2015-0559 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 10 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in epan/dissectors/packet-wccp.c in the WCCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the use of packet-scope memory instead of pinfo-scope memory.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0559?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2015-0559?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2015-0559 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0559 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0559, GHSA-844j-gv94-jqj8, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0559.