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CVE-2015-8711

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8711 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the NBAP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by crafting a malicious packet that exploits the dissector's failure to validate conversation data. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires local access and user interaction, but has a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public 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: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8711Moderate

wireshark: NBAP dissector crashes (wnpa-sec-2015-31)

Dec 29, 2015

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201604-05
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3505
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
securityfocus.com / bid/79814
securitytracker.com / id/1034551
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2015-31.html
Vendor Advisory