PT-2016-6962 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Chris Benedict · Published 2016-08-06 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2016-6507

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

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 MMSE dissector in the epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.12, update to version 1.12.13 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6507

DLA-595-1

DSA-3648-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2212-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2453-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 63

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6511 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6507 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6507 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6507 · 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-2016-6504 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2453-1 · 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6507 · Security Note