CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6503
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- 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-20
Description
The CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.1
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.2
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.3
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1 code.wireshark.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1 code.wireshark.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196/ www.exploit-db.com