CVE-2015-6243: Oracle Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Oracle Linux: version 7 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.12.0 only; version 1.12.1 only; version 1.12.2 only; version 1.12.3 only; version 1.12.4 only; version 1.12.5 only; …

Published 2015-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.