CVE-2016-2531

MEDIUM

Wireshark - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

Off-by-one error in epan/dissectors/packet-rsl.c in the RSL dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers a 0xff tag value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2530.

References (9)

[Patch] https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=de65fd6b00d0b891930324b9549c93ccfe9cac30

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00015.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00016.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-10.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11829

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3516

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0143

EPSS Percentile 80.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (12)

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

wireshark/wireshark

Timeline

Published Feb 28, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026