CVE-2015-0561

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

asn1/lpp/lpp.cnf in the LPP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 does not validate a certain index value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+9)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62612
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-02.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10773
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e96830156bea314207b97315ccebd605317f142
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62612
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-02.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10773
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e96830156bea314207b97315ccebd605317f142

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