Out-of-bounds read in Wireshark - CVE-2016-2522
Published: February 28, 2016 / Updated: March 24, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40449
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2522
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote 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 epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c function in the ASN.1 BER dissector 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-2016-2522
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-02.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11828
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=9b2f3f7c5c9205381cb72e42b66e97d8ed3abf63
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05