PT-2016-6961 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Chris Benedict · Published 2016-08-03 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2016-6506

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 an infinite loop, via a crafted packet. This is related to the WSP dissector in the epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.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.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6506

DLA-595-1

DSA-3648-1

MGASA-2016-0275

SUSE-SU-2016:2212-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2453-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 78

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6506 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6511 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6506 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6506 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6512 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6505 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6510 · Security Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12594 · Patch
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0275.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6509 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6506 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6504 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2453-1 · Vendor Advisory