CVE-2015-8741: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dissect_ppi function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppi.c in the PPI dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not initialize a packet-header data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only

Published 2016-01-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.