PT-2016-5184 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-02-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-2526

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.1

Description The issue is related to the HiQnet dissector in Wireshark, where it fails to validate the data type. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds read and application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.1, update to version 2.0.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1195

CVE-2016-2526

MGASA-2016-0091

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 321

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2526 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4417 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2526 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2526 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2532 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4415 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2530 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2526 · Security Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11983 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-06.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4420 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4419 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2525 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2526 · Vendor Advisory