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CVE-2015-8723 json

The AirPDcapPacketProcess function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.…

published 2016-01-04 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8600

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The AirPDcapPacketProcess function in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the relationship between the total length and the capture length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.1+g59ea380-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8723

  • wireshark Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8723

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +6 more 1.12.9-0.12.1
  • wireshark SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 SP1 +5 more 1.12.9-22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0110-1SUSE-SU-2016:0109-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.2.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8723 updated cvss 4.3

wireshark: 802.11 decryption crash (wnpa-sec-2015-42)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39005)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39005 Wireshark - AirPDcapPacketProcess Stack Buffer Overflow dos, 2015-12-16

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.