{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6242 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2015-6242 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2015-6242 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2015-6242 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6242 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Oracle Solaris. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6242/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6242/index.md)","id":"CVE-2015-6242","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6242/index.md","name":"CVE-2015-6242","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6242","GHSA-cxr5-cqh9-cwrf","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6242"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Wireshark network analyzer","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can crash Wireshark via crafted packets due to improper memory handling in the wmem block allocator.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"solaris","vendor":"oracle"},{"product":"wireshark","vendor":"wireshark"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"The wmem_block_split_free_chunk function in epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c in the wmem block allocator in the memory manager in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not properly consider a certain case of multiple realloc operations that restore a memory chunk to its original size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect free operation and application crash) via a crafted packet.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-6242","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"oracle:solaris","products":["oracle:solaris","wireshark:wireshark"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2015"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-6243"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-6241"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2015-08-24","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified","id":"CVE-2020-14871","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-10-21"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2019-3010","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2019-10-16"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Missing authorization in Oracle Solaris","id":"CVE-2026-46978","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-06-16"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in Solaris Operating System","id":"CVE-2017-3623","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-04-24"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-0397","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-10-06"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-3509","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-10-13"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-0882","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-02-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can crash Wireshark via crafted packets due to improper memory handling in the wmem block allocator.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-6242/"}