CVE-2015-3814

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The (1) dissect_tfs_request and (2) dissect_tfs_response functions in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.14 and 1.12.x before 1.12.5 interpret a zero value as a length rather than an error condition, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

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 (+14)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3277
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74631
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-17.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11110
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e243b0041328980a9bbd43bb8a8166d7422f9096
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3277
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74631
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-17.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11110

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