CVE-2016-6503

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.9
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-6503
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-08-06T23:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-09-03T01:29:11
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.9
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1 Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3 Mailing List
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495 Issue Tracking
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6503
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6503
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 08:41:05 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 10:47:39 2016-08-06T23:59Z 2016-08-06T23:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 10:47:39 2017-09-03T01:29:11 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 10:47:39 Modified Vulnerability Status updated