CVE-2015-0563

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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

epan/dissectors/packet-smtp.c in the SMTP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 uses an incorrect length value for certain string-append operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+9)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62612
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:022
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71916
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-04.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10823
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=611cfd00c283e7a77a2f1fd89c01b0b9f691411b
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854157883bd1972e012c65c0418a9732ef5d9fb0
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0019.html

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