CVE-2015-8721
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8721
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8721.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8721
- Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (1)
UBUNTU (1)
- Related
- Published
- 2016-01-04T05:59:11Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:45:33Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Buffer overflow in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet with zlib compression.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3505
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-40.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11548
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79814
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cec0593ae6c3bca65eff65741c2a10f3de3e0afe