CVSS 3.0
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-4415
Medium (5.9) in wireshark wireshark. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- wireshark:wireshark
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647