PT-2016-6960 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Aurelien Delaitre + 1 · Published 2016-08-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6505

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 1.12.12 Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and application crash, via a crafted packet. This is related to the PacketBB dissector in the epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.12, update to version 1.12.13 or later. For Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.5 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6505

DLA-595-1

DSA-3648-1

MGASA-2016-0275

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2212-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2453-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 329

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/40197 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6505 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6509 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6505 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6508 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6505 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6512 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0275.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6504 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6503 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wireshark · Vendor Advisory