Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8739 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wireshark 2.0.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The ipmi_fmt_udpport function in epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi.c in the IPMI dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 improperly attempts to access a packet scope, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted packet.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
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.
Exploit-Db
description | Wireshark - wmem_alloc Assertion Failure. CVE-2015-8739. Dos exploits for multiple platform |
id | EDB-ID:38994 |
last seen | 2016-02-04 |
modified | 2015-12-16 |
published | 2015-12-16 |
reporter | Google Security Research |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/38994/ |
title | Wireshark - wmem_alloc Assertion Failure |
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201604-05.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201604-05 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service and local attackers could escalate privileges. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90744 published 2016-04-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90744 title GLSA-201604-05 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201604-05. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(90744); script_version("2.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/04/11 17:23:06"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8711", "CVE-2015-8712", "CVE-2015-8713", "CVE-2015-8714", "CVE-2015-8715", "CVE-2015-8716", "CVE-2015-8717", "CVE-2015-8718", "CVE-2015-8719", "CVE-2015-8720", "CVE-2015-8721", "CVE-2015-8722", "CVE-2015-8723", "CVE-2015-8724", "CVE-2015-8725", "CVE-2015-8726", "CVE-2015-8727", "CVE-2015-8728", "CVE-2015-8729", "CVE-2015-8730", "CVE-2015-8731", "CVE-2015-8732", "CVE-2015-8733", "CVE-2015-8734", "CVE-2015-8735", "CVE-2015-8736", "CVE-2015-8737", "CVE-2015-8738", "CVE-2015-8739", "CVE-2015-8740", "CVE-2015-8741", "CVE-2015-8742", "CVE-2016-2521", "CVE-2016-2522", "CVE-2016-2523", "CVE-2016-2524", "CVE-2016-2525", "CVE-2016-2526", "CVE-2016-2527", "CVE-2016-2528", "CVE-2016-2529", "CVE-2016-2530", "CVE-2016-2531", "CVE-2016-2532"); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201604-05"); script_name(english:"GLSA-201604-05 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201604-05 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service and local attackers could escalate privileges. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/wireshark-2.0.2'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:wireshark"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/27"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"net-analyzer/wireshark", unaffected:make_list("ge 2.0.2"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 2.0.2"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Wireshark"); }
NASL family Windows NASL id WIRESHARK_2_0_1.NASL description The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components : - 802.11 dissector - ANSI A dissector - Ascend file parser - BER dissector - Bluetooth Attribute dissector - DIAMETER dissector - GSM A dissector - IPMI dissector - MP2T file parser - MS-WSP dissector - NBAP dissector - NLM dissector - NWP dissector - PPI dissector - RSL dissector - RSVP dissector - S7COMM dissector - SCTP dissector - Sniffer file parser - TDS dissector - VeriWave file parser - ZigBee ZCL dissector - zlib compression Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 87825 published 2016-01-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87825 title Wireshark 2.0.0 Multiple DoS
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79382
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034551
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-57.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-57.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11831
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11831
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=96bf82ced0b58c7a4c2a6c300efeebe4f05c0ff4
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=96bf82ced0b58c7a4c2a6c300efeebe4f05c0ff4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05