VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2190

medium
Published 2015-03-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4
sid Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4
forky Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4
bullseye Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4
bookworm Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.12.0
wiresharkwireshark1.12.1
wiresharkwireshark1.12.2
wiresharkwireshark1.12.3

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.