PT-2016-6958 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Igor · Published 2016-08-06 · Updated 2017-09-03 · CVE-2016-6503

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 2.0.4

Description The issue is related to the CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark, which do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options on 64-bit Windows platforms. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6503

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 22

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/40196 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6510 · Security Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6503 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6508 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6513 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6512 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6503 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6511 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6509 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6505 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6507 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6503 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6506 · Security Note