CVE-2015-3815

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: 2015-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The detect_version function in wiretap/logcat.c in the Android Logcat file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.5 does not check the length of the payload, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a packet with a crafted payload, as demonstrated by a length of zero, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3906.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.12.4

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3277
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74630
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-18.html
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/11-Read-heap-overflow-invalid-memory-access-in-Wireshark-TFPA-0072015.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11188
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b3b1f7c3aa2233a147294bad833b748d38fba84d
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3277
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74630
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-18.html
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/11-Read-heap-overflow-invalid-memory-access-in-Wireshark-TFPA-0072015.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11188

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