SB2016101838 - Denial of service in wireshark (Alpine package)
Published: October 18, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016101838
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7175)
The vulnerability allows remote user to cause the denial of service on the target system.
The weakness exists due to causing of the QNX6 QNET dissector crash. A remote attacker can send and inject specially crafted malformed packet or trick the victim into reading its trace file.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to cause a denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.