CVE-2015-8729

mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.041 · 91 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

4.10% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

11 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The ascend_seek function in wiretap/ascendtext.c in the Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character at the end of a date string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.05.2mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-39001Wireshark - ascend_seek Static Out-of-Bounds Readfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 1.12.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-01-04modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

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