CVE-2016-6513

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 does not restrict the recursion depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 does not restrict the recursion depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (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 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

1036480

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-49.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12663

Issue Tracking

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=347f071f1b9180563c28b0f3d0627b91eb456c72

Patch

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