Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8740 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wireshark 2.0.0

047910
CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
high complexity
wireshark
CWE-20
nessus
exploit available

Summary

The dissect_tds7_colmetadata_token function in epan/dissectors/packet-tds.c in the TDS dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the number of columns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wireshark
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

descriptionWireshark - dissect_diameter_base_framed_ipv6_prefix Stack-Based Buffer Overflow. CVE-2015-8725,CVE-2015-8740. Dos exploits for multiple platform
idEDB-ID:39003
last seen2016-02-04
modified2015-12-16
published2015-12-16
reporterGoogle Security Research
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/39003/
titleWireshark - dissect_diameter_base_framed_ipv6_prefix Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201604-05.NASL
    descriptionThe 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id90744
    published2016-04-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90744
    titleGLSA-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 familyWindows
    NASL idWIRESHARK_2_0_1.NASL
    descriptionThe 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id87825
    published2016-01-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87825
    titleWireshark 2.0.0 Multiple DoS