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CVE-2015-6247

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6247 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the OpenFlow dissector of Wireshark versions 1.12.x prior to 1.12.7, affecting products like Oracle Solaris and Wireshark itself. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by sending a crafted packet that exploits an invalid offset value in the dissect_openflow_tablemod_v5 function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-2015-6247Moderate

wireshark: OpenFlow dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-27)

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-2015-27.html
Vendor Advisory