CVE-2016-6503

Description

The CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196/

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3