CVE-2015-0560 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Wireshark via crafted WCCP packets due to uninitialized data structures, requiring an upgrade to patched versions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-0560?
CVE-2015-0560 is a medium-severity denial of service 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
The dissect_wccp2r1_address_table_info function 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 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Weakness: CWE-19
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0560?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2015-0560?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-0560 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0560 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0560, GHSA-hg4g-9m27-49w9, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0560.