CVE-2015-2190

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% 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/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly handle integer data types greater than 32 bits in size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled by the LLDP dissector.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72938
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-09.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10983
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d1865e000ebedf49fc0d9f221a11d6af74360837
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00038.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72938
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031858

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