PT-2016-6965 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Antti Levomäki · Published 2016-08-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6510

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 caused by an off-by-one error in the RLC dissector, which can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow and application crash when a crafted packet is processed. This can result in a denial of service.

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-189

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6510

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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6510 · 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
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6510 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6510 · Security Note
• 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