CVE-2015-6248: Oracle Linux

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

The ptvcursor_add function in the ptvcursor implementation in epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not check whether the expected amount of data is available, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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.