CVE-2015-2187

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The dissect_atn_cpdlc_heur function in asn1/atn-cpdlc/packet-atn-cpdlc-template.c in the ATN-CPDLC dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly follow the TRY/ENDTRY code requirements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72940
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-06.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9952
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a3dd349233a4ee3e69295c8e79f9a216027037e
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72940
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-06.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9952

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