Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1296063
CVE-2015-8719 wireshark: DNS dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-38)
Last modified: 2016-01-06 06:55:19 EST
It was reported that Wireshark's DNS dissector could crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This flaw is fixed in the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.9. Upstream bug(s): https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10988 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-38
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1296097]