PT-2016-5949 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2016-03-07 · Updated 2016-05-04 · CVE-2016-4420

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a crafted packet to the NFS dissector in Wireshark.

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-2016-4420

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 31

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2529 · Security Note
• 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4420 · Security Note
• 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
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4420 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2521 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4420 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4421 · Security Note