CVE-2015-0561

wireshark: LPP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-02)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · January 7, 2015

Updated · January 14, 2026

Description

asn1/lpp/lpp.cnf in the LPP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3 does not validate a certain index value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified