CVE-2016-4077

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

epan/reassemble.c in TShark in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.3 relies on incorrect special-case handling of truncated Tvb data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Wireshark

First reported 8 years ago

2016-04-25 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-03 03:27:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 2.0.0

2.0.0

Wireshark 2.0.1

2.0.1

Wireshark 2.0.2

2.0.2

References

1035685

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-20.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11799

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=651

Exploit

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=c5b2c1e8f40cee913bd70fcc00284483b3c92fcd

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