CVE-2015-2188 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2188?

CVE-2015-2188 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.

Weakness: CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2188?

It affects 6 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2015-2188?

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-2015-2188 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2188 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2188, GHSA-m5wv-rfcq-fg25, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2188.