CVE-2015-2188

wireshark: The WCP dissector could crash while decompressing data (wnpa-sec-2015-07)

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.9

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · March 4, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression.

Statement

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

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 · 2.9
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read