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CVE-2015-6243

Published:August 24, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

The dissector-table implementation in epan/packet.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 mishandles table searches for empty strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet, related to the (1) dissector_get_string_handle and (2) dissector_get_default_string_handle functions.

Related Resources (14)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033272

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb1ccbdccde89701f255f921d88992878057477d

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-23.html

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-6243

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76384

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165509.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00053.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168837.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3367