CVE-2015-6247 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6247?

CVE-2015-6247 is a medium-severity denial of service 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.

Official description

The dissect_openflow_tablemod_v5 function in epan/dissectors/packet-openflow_v5.c in the OpenFlow dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not validate a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6247?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Solaris, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6247?

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-2015-6247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris

• CVE-2020-14871 Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2019-3010 Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-46978 Missing authorization in Oracle Solaris Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-3623 Other in Solaris Operating System Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-0397 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6247, GHSA-cpj3-4vwc-2h5c, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6247.