CVE-2015-0564 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0564?

CVE-2015-0564 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer underflow in the ssl_decrypt_record function in epan/dissectors/packet-ssl-utils.c in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decryption of an SSL session.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0564?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0564?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-0564 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0564 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0564, GHSA-wmjp-f22x-624h, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0564.