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CVE-2015-6241

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6241 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.12.x before 1.12.7, and also affecting Oracle Solaris and Oracle Wireshark products. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted packet due to improper data structure termination during string processing. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.81%
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 0.0281 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-6241Moderate

wireshark: protocol tree crash (wnpa-sec-2015-21)

Aug 11, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168837.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165509.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00053.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3367
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1033272
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2015-21.html
Vendor Advisory