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CVE-2015-8741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The dissect_ppi function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppi.c in the PPI dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not initialize a packet-header data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-59.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11876
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2290eba5cb25f927f9142680193ac1158d35506e
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-59.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11876
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2290eba5cb25f927f9142680193ac1158d35506e
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

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