Out-of-Bounds Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.12.x)[2.0., 2.0.x)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318069
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed25 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-4006  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.12.x, 2.0.x or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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