PT-2016-5189 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-02-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-2531

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 1.12.x through 1.12.9 Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.1

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the RSL dissector, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted packet. This can result in an out-of-bounds read and application crash when a 0xff tag value is triggered.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.9, update to version 1.12.10 or later. For Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.1, update to version 2.0.2 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1195

CVE-2016-2531

DSA-3516-1

MGASA-2016-0091

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1344-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1345-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 336

• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-10.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4417 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2531 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2531 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3516-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2532 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3516-1 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1345-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2531 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wireshark · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8731 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2531 · Vendor Advisory