Kaspersky ID:
KLA10796
Detect Date:
04/25/2016
Updated:
01/28/2026

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can cause denial of service. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by injecting malformed packet.


Technical details

These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely via a vectors related to stack-based buffer overflow and improper memory initialisation for search patterns in NCP dissector, integer signedness error and improper memory objects handling in the MS-WSP dissector, using wrong variable for indexing an array in the GSM CBCH dissector, using incorrect integer data type in the IAX2 dissector, misparsing timestamp fields and absence of verification of BER identifiers in the PKTC dissector, improper restrictions of element list in IEEE 802.11 dissector, incorrect special-case handling of truncated Tvb data structures, impoper limitations of protocol-tree depth.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2016-4085
    high
  • CVE-2016-4084
    high
  • CVE-2016-4083
    high
  • CVE-2016-4082
    high
  • CVE-2016-4081
    high
  • CVE-2016-4080
    high
  • CVE-2016-4079
    high
  • CVE-2016-4078
    high
  • CVE-2016-4077
    high
  • CVE-2016-4076
    high
  • CVE-2016-4006
    high

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