CVE-2016-6510

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Off-by-one error in epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c in the RLC dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.13 and 2.x before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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

2016-08-06 23:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 20:33:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.12.0

1.12.0

Wireshark 1.12.1

1.12.1

Wireshark Wireshark 1.12.2

1.12.2

Wireshark 1.12.3

1.12.3

Wireshark 1.12.4

1.12.4

Wireshark Wireshark 1.12.5

1.12.5

Wireshark 1.12.6

1.12.6

Wireshark 1.12.7

1.12.7

Wireshark 1.12.8

1.12.8

Wireshark 1.12.9

1.12.9

Wireshark 1.12.10

1.12.10

Wireshark 1.12.11

1.12.11

Wireshark 1.12.12

1.12.12

Wireshark 2.0.0

2.0.0

Wireshark 2.0.1

2.0.1

Wireshark 2.0.2

2.0.2

Wireshark 2.0.3

2.0.3

Wireshark 2.0.4

2.0.4

References

[oss-security] 20160728 CVE request: Wireshark 2.0.5 and 1.12.13 security releases

Mailing List

DSA-3648

1036480

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-46.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12664

Issue Tracking

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=47a5fa850b388fcf4ea762073806f01b459820fe

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