vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2015-8741 : PPI dissector crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2016
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solution

wireshark-upgrade-2_0_1
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