CVE-2015-8722

wireshark: SCTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-41)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 29, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-sctp.c in the SCTP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not validate the frame pointer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVSS score applicability

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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-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference