CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4415
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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-119
Description
wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647 Exploit
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647 Exploit
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html Vendor Advisory