CVE-2015-2188

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% 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-19

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Mageia: 4.0
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7
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 (+11)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0117.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3210
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:183
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72942
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-07.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10844
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b204ff4846fe84b7789893c6b1d9afbdecac5b5d
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03

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