PT-2016-6968 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Antti Levomäki · Published 2016-08-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6513

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 2.0.0 through 2.0.4

Description The issue is related to the WBXML dissector in Wireshark, where the recursion depth is not restricted, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1901

CVE-2016-6513

MGASA-2016-0275

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 304

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6513 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6513 · 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6513 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6512 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-6513 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0275.html · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6513 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6503 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6513 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6511 · Security Note