Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-6241 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

The proto_tree_add_bytes_item function in epan/proto.c in the protocol-tree implementation in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not properly terminate a data structure after a failure to locate a number within a string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2015-13946.NASL
    description - Enable libnl3 (see rhbz#1207386, rhbz#1247566) - Remove airpcap switch (doesn
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2015-09-04
    plugin id85772
    published2015-09-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85772
    titleFedora 23 : wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 (2015-13946)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2015-13945.NASL
    description - Enable libnl3 (see rhbz#1207386, rhbz#1247566) - Remove airpcap switch (doesn
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2015-10-08
    plugin id86313
    published2015-10-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86313
    titleFedora 22 : wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 (2015-13945)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3367.NASL
    descriptionMultiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for ZigBee, GSM RLC/MAC, WaveAgent, ptvcursor, OpenFlow, WCCP and in internal functions which could result in denial of service.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id86156
    published2015-09-28
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86156
    titleDebian DSA-3367-1 : wireshark - security update
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2015-1713-1.NASL
    descriptionWireshark has been updated to 1.12.7. (FATE#319388) The following vulnerabilities have been fixed : - Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21 CVE-2015-6241 - Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory. wnpa-sec-2015-22 CVE-2015-6242 - Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23 CVE-2015-6243 - The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24 CVE-2015-6244 - The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25 CVE-2015-6245 - The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26 CVE-2015-6246 - The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-27 CVE-2015-6247 - Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28 CVE-2015-6248 - The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29 CVE-2015-6249 - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7 .html Also a fix from 1.12.6 in GSM DTAP was backported. (bnc#935158) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86347
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1713-1)
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_9BDD8EB5564A11E59AD814DAE9D210B8.NASL
    descriptionWireshark development team reports : The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. - wnpa-sec-2015-21 Protocol tree crash. (Bug 11309) - wnpa-sec-2015-22 Memory manager crash. (Bug 11373) - wnpa-sec-2015-23 Dissector table crash. (Bug 11381) - wnpa-sec-2015-24 ZigBee crash. (Bug 11389) - wnpa-sec-2015-25 GSM RLC/MAC infinite loop. (Bug 11358) - wnpa-sec-2015-26 WaveAgent crash. (Bug 11358) - wnpa-sec-2015-27 OpenFlow infinite loop. (Bug 11358) - wnpa-sec-2015-28 Ptvcursor crash. (Bug 11358) - wnpa-sec-2015-29 WCCP crash. (Bug 11358)
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    plugin id85861
    published2015-09-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85861
    titleFreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (9bdd8eb5-564a-11e5-9ad8-14dae9d210b8)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2015-683.NASL
    descriptionwireshark was updated to version 1.12.8 to fix ten security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-6247: The dissect_openflow_tablemod_v5 function in epan/dissectors/packet-openflow_v5.c in the OpenFlow dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not validate a certain offset value, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6246: The dissect_wa_payload function in epan/dissectors/packet-waveagent.c in the WaveAgent dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles large tag values, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6245: epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_rlcmac.c in the GSM RLC/MAC dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 used incorrect integer data types, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6244: The dissect_zbee_secure function in epan/dissectors/packet-zbee-security.c in the ZigBee dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 improperly relies on length fields contained in packet data, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6243: The dissector-table implementation in epan/packet.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles table searches for empty strings, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the (1) dissector_get_string_handle and (2) dissector_get_default_string_handle functions (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6242: The wmem_block_split_free_chunk function in epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c in the wmem block allocator in the memory manager in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not properly consider a certain case of multiple realloc operations that restore a memory chunk to its original size, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect free operation and application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6241: The proto_tree_add_bytes_item function in epan/proto.c in the protocol-tree implementation in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not properly terminate a data structure after a failure to locate a number within a string, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-7830: pcapng file parser could crash while copying an interface filter (bsc#950437). - CVE-2015-6249: The dissect_wccp2r1_address_table_info function in epan/dissectors/packet-wccp.c in the WCCP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not prevent the conflicting use of a table for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500). - CVE-2015-6248: The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not check whether the expected amount of data is available, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet (bsc#941500).
    last seen2020-06-05
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    plugin id86646
    published2015-10-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86646
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-683)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2015-1676-2.NASL
    descriptionWireshark has been updated to 1.12.7. (FATE#319388) The following vulnerabilities have been fixed : - Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21 CVE-2015-6241 - Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory. wnpa-sec-2015-22 CVE-2015-6242 - Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23 CVE-2015-6243 - The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24 CVE-2015-6244 - The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25 CVE-2015-6245 - The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26 CVE-2015-6246 - The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-27 CVE-2015-6247 - Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28 CVE-2015-6248 - The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29 CVE-2015-6249 - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7 .html Also a fix from 1.12.6 in GSM DTAP was backported. (bnc#935158 CVE-2015-4652) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id86289
    published2015-10-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86289
    titleSUSE SLED11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1676-2)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2015-1676-1.NASL
    descriptionWireshark has been updated to 1.12.7. (FATE#319388) The following vulnerabilities have been fixed : - Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. wnpa-sec-2015-21 CVE-2015-6241 - Wireshark could attempt to free invalid memory. wnpa-sec-2015-22 CVE-2015-6242 - Wireshark could crash when searching for a protocol dissector. wnpa-sec-2015-23 CVE-2015-6243 - The ZigBee dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-24 CVE-2015-6244 - The GSM RLC/MAC dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-25 CVE-2015-6245 - The WaveAgent dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-26 CVE-2015-6246 - The OpenFlow dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2015-27 CVE-2015-6247 - Wireshark could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. wnpa-sec-2015-28 CVE-2015-6248 - The WCCP dissector could crash. wnpa-sec-2015-29 CVE-2015-6249 - Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7 .html Also a fix from 1.12.6 in GSM DTAP was backported. (bnc#935158 CVE-2015-4652) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
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    plugin id86288
    published2015-10-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86288
    titleSUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2015:1676-1)