PT-2016-5944 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-03-07 · Updated 2016-05-04 · CVE-2016-4415

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 a heap-based buffer overflow and application crash in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser. This occurs due to incorrect handling of a certain octet count in the wiretap/vwr.c file, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1195

CVE-2016-4415

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 32

• 🔥 https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2529 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2523 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2532 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1195 · 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-2016-2531 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4415 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4415 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2530 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2526 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4417 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2521 · Security Note