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
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CVE list
- CVE-2016-4085 warning
- CVE-2016-4084 warning
- CVE-2016-4083 warning
- CVE-2016-4082 warning
- CVE-2016-4081 warning
- CVE-2016-4080 warning
- CVE-2016-4079 warning
- CVE-2016-4078 warning
- CVE-2016-4077 warning
- CVE-2016-4076 warning
- CVE-2016-4006 warning
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