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CVE-2015-3813

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-3813 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.12.x prior to 1.12.5. The flaw, residing in the packet-reassembly feature's fragment_add_work function, allows remote attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption through a crafted packet due to improper defragmentation state determination with insufficient snapshot lengths. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to potential availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.12.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0282 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-25.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.10.14-7.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-3813Moderate

wireshark: Reassembly memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-16)

May 12, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0631.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201510-03
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3277
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/74633
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2015-16.html
Vendor Advisory