CVE-2016-6511

medium

Description

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.13 and 2.x before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OpenFlow dissector large loop) via a crafted packet.

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=56706427f53cc64793870bf072c2c06248ae88f3

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12659

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-47.html

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3648

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-06

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H