CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2527
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
wiretap/nettrace_3gpp_32_423.c in the 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace file parser in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not ensure that a '\0' character is present at the end of certain strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-07.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11982 Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=140aad08e081489b5cdb715cb5bca01db856fded code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-07.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11982 Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=140aad08e081489b5cdb715cb5bca01db856fded code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 security.gentoo.org