CVE-2016-2525

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-http2.c in the HTTP/2 dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not limit the amount of header data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a47ac7624993b99966e1d813245ffb419a2d201

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12077

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-05.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3