CVE-2016-6503

MEDIUM

Wireshark 2.x < 2.0.5 - Denial of Service via CORBA IDL Dissector

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-6503. PoCs published by Igor.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text is a build information dump from Wireshark and a reference to a Proof of Concept (PoC) for CVE-2016-6503. It does not contain actual exploit code but points to an external ZIP file for the PoC.

Description

The CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED

by Igor · textdoswindows_x86-64

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196

View Code ZIP pw:eip

The provided text is a build information dump from Wireshark and a reference to a Proof of Concept (PoC) for CVE-2016-6503. It does not contain actual exploit code but points to an external ZIP file for the PoC.

Classification

Writeup 90%

Attack Type

Dos

Complexity

Trivial

Reliability

Theoretical

Target: Wireshark 2.0.3

No auth needed

Prerequisites: Wireshark 2.0.3 installed on a vulnerable system

MITRE ATT&CK