PT-2016-6963 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Antti Levomäki · Published 2016-08-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6508

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 is related to the RLC dissector in Wireshark, where an incorrect integer data type is used in the epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c file. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by creating a large loop via a crafted packet.

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-2016-6508

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 · 327

• 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6508 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6508 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-44.html · 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
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3648 · Vendor Advisory