Out-of-bounds read in Wireshark - CVE-2016-2529
Published: February 28, 2016 / Updated: March 24, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40443
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2529
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the wiretap/iseries.c function in the iSeries file parser file. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.
Affected software
Wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2016-2529
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-09.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11985
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=96d585a5e9baef21e1eea8505d78305b034dc80e
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05